Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. — Robert Smithson
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in… — Emma Watson
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. — Steven Wright
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… — Martin Filler
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view… — Martin Filler
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
Iâ€™m curious about things that people arenâ€™t supposed to seeâ€”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

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