Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up… — Martin Filler
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… — Oliver Sacks
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
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… — Daniel Handler
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for… — Haruki Murakami
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The… — Paul Rand
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that… — Barack Obama
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all… — Orson Scott Card
I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but… — Jim Butcher
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from the first time… — Shana Abe
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 like it better… — Audrey Niffenegger
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. — Erich Maria Remarque
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man — Mark Twain
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,… — Charles Bukowski
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with… — Elizabeth Kostova
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking… — David Nicholls
Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car… — Sapphire
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan
I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total… — Rick Riordan
My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for… — Jodi Picoult
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile… — Ansel Adams
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her… — Michael Chabon

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