Museums Quotes - Page 5

• Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Matter, Void

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, Blame, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Death, Thinking, Design

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• When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Race, Long Ago

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

  David Rockefeller

  Mean, Thinking, Events

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it would be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it.

  Daniel Handler

  House, Would Be, Looks

  "The Wide Window". Book by Daniel Handler, 2000.

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• I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

  Anna Sui

  Thinking, Fantasy, Someday

  Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 4, 2006.

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• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Would Be

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Travel, Home, Tourism

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.4000, Delphi Classics

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• We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

  Terence McKenna

  Perception, World, Walks

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• We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.

  Penelope Lively

  Latin, Lexicon, Each Day

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

  Jane Byrne

  Education, Country, University

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• I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

  Rainn Wilson

  Art, Book, Sound

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• In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

  Burton Silverman

  Taken, People, Eras

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• New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  New York, Real, Home

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• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Art, New York, Thinking

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

  Brad Pitt

  Sports, Religious, Golf

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• A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

  John Cotton

  Art, Hours, Stores

  "Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums" by Tara Mulholland, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2010.

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• If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

  Jock Sturges

  Country, Art, Directors

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• I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

  Bill Wyman

  Photography, Work, Events

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• I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

  Christina Aguilera

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

  Nicholas Lea

  Book, Pages, My Family

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Night, Bars, Clubs

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• We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

  Katherine Dunham

  Air, Trying, Groups

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• When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

  Robert McKee

  Meaningful, Emotional, Want

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