Museum Quotes

322 quotes by 270 authors

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but… — Elayne Boosler
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. — Eli Broad
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how… — Chuck Close
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation… — Jimmy Carter
"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. — Renzo Piano
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… — Lewis H. Lapham
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. — Prince Philip
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have… — Isaac Mizrahi
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not… — Charles Darwin
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see… — Muhammad Yunus
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. — Claes Oldenburg
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. — Jules de Goncourt
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond de Goncourt
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. — George Gaylord Simpson
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of… — Irving Howe

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