Museum Quotes

322 quotes by 268 authors

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in… — Fred Reed
If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless. — Nancy Lancaster
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have… — Daniel Barenboim
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think… — Issey Miyake
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a… — Unknown Author
Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which my salon of… — Rembrandt Peale
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. — Michel Leiris
Pele should go back to the museum. — Diego Maradona
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't… — Mark Steyn
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his… — Nhat Hanh
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. — Bill Hicks
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the… — W. Eugene Smith
I canâ€™t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of… — W. Eugene Smith
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that are… — Nick Cave
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the… — Terence McKenna
My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs. — Andres Iniesta
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But… — James M. Cain
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked… — Miles Davis

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