Museums Quotes - Page 32

• Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Atmosphere, Entering

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• Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

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• Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Memories, Distance

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• I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.

  Ernie Colon

  Book, Kids, Islands

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth. It is a moment of revelation, as when the right ray of sun penetrates through the right window pane, and falls with the right slant on one picture in the museum.

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon

  Fall, Window Panes, Two

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• The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

  John Osteen

  Hurt, People, Perfect

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• The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

  John Green

  Book, Names, Long

  "An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall". "Vlogbrothers" with John and Hank Green, nerdfighteria.info. January 15, 2013.

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• Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Perfect

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• We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

  Pope Francis

  People, Needs, Youth

  "Pope to Filipinos: We need holy young people" by Camille Diola, www.philstar.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Luxury, Long

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.223, PublicAffairs

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• One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Optimistic, Grandchildren, One Day

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Interview, March 25, 1997.

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