Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

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 can’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
Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the… — Olafur Eliasson
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s… — Helmut Newton
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone… — David LaChapelle
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for… — C S Forester
Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum… — Paul Goldberger
The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. — Michael Heizer
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of… — Dale Chihuly
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate… — Jock Sturges
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic… — Richard Fortey
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead… — Jerry Saltz
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. — Maira Kalman
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean… — Sarah Kay
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South… — Junichiro Koizumi

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