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Museum Quotes by Gary Saul Morson
- Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be…
- An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
More Museum Quotes
- I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and… — Elayne Boosler
- Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. — Eli Broad
- I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs
- Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient… — Jimmy Carter
- "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. — Renzo Piano
- I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham
- Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson
- The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. — Prince Philip