MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old… — Jim Dale Copy Share Image
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if… — Leslie Bibb Copy Share Image
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration,… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
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