Museums Quotes · Page 6

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

— Anonymous

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

— Pope Francis

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

— Julie Harris

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

— Albert C. Barnes

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

— Bill Viola

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

— Lydia Millet

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums,

— Banksy

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

— Pierre Loti

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding…

— Christian Louboutin

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable…

— Jerry Saltz

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of…

— Nhat Hanh

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

— Melinda Gates

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

— Barry McGee

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're…

— Richard Meier

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis…

— Liza Campbell

Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the…

— Mark Frauenfelder

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with…

— Steve Prefontaine

Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of…

— Kent Hovind

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all…

— Kerry James Marshall

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I…

— Mariel Hemingway

“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask…

— Sharon Waxman

I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky… And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle…

— Bill Maher

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something…

— Banksy

As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love…

— Sharon Creech

“Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the…

— Leah Hager Cohen

Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of…

— William Rees-Mogg

It's a response from Donald Trump [to the Pope]. It says, "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS..." Their primary…

— Donald Trump

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation…

— Arundhati Roy

I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for…

— Kelly Link

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion…

— Octavio Paz

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

— Robert Ballard

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

— Muhammad Yunus

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

— Fred D'Aguiar

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

— Theodore Zeldin

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

— Ralph Ellison

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

— Norton Simon

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

— Joni Mitchell

I'm more inclined towards old churches and dusty museums.

— Sunny Ozell