Museum Quotes

322 quotes by 270 authors

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something… — Paul Allen
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop. — Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… — Susan Sontag
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea
I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, — David Hasselhoff
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. — Brad Pitt
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. — Gary Oldman
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, Iâ€™d choose the… — Tim Gunn
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth… — Werner Herzog
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up… — Newt Gingrich
Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum. — Lydia Millet
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who… — Mark Frauenfelder
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have… — John Cotton
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. — John Dos Passos
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines… — Daniel Libeskind
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts — Albert C. Barnes
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes

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