Museums Quotes · Page 4

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

— Bill Jay

A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.

— Theodore Levitt

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

— William Thorsell

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

— Mason Cooley

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

— Timothy Keller

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

— Robert T. Bakker

Egypt really is one of the worlds greatest open-air museums.

— Josh Gates

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

— Eli Broad

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

— Abbi Jacobson

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons…

— Albert C. Barnes

“The gods are made of marble Deep inside a museum A quadruped monster beckons me to approach ("Outcries")”

— Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big…

— Kiki Smith

There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check…

— Troy Polamalu

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

— Pontus Hulten

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is…

— Steve Martin

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

— Richard Misrach

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial…

— Jerry Saltz

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating…

— Sara Sheridan

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to…

— Michael Steinhardt

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum…

— Phylicia Rashad

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu…

— Daniel Hannan

In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art…

— Khaled Hosseini

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs,…

— J. B. Priestley

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the…

— Kerry James Marshall

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean…

— Rick Steves

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

— Octavio Paz

I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,…

— Clemence Poesy

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a…

— Richard Saul Wurman

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place…

— Muhammad Yunus

A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000…

— Malcolm Forbes

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order…

— D. H. Lawrence

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

— John Dos Passos

If you're gonna do museums, some of the best in the world are in D.C.

— Sean Doolittle

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

— Susan Sontag

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

— Andy Warhol

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

— Charles Bukowski

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

— Richard Simmons

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

— Rick Riordan

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

— Brad Pitt