Museum Quotes

322 quotes by 268 authors

Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to… — Unknown Author
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every… — Nancy Lancaster
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never… — Van Day Truex
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were,… — A. A. Gill
I think that objects have memories. Iâ€™m always thinking that Iâ€™ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some… — Kiki Smith
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was… — Amy Plum
My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your… — Richard Saul Wurman
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine… — Noam Chomsky
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be… — Aldo Leopold
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington
The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves. — Diane Ackerman
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art,… — David Amram
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. — Glenn Gould
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help… — Sarah Vowell
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a… — John Waters
No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I… — Sarah
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. — Iggy Azalea
The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen

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