Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

A theater without beer is just a museum — Bertolt Brecht
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I… — J. D. Daniels
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce
The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to… — Newt Gingrich
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,… — Oliver Lodge
Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has… — D. H. Lawrence
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight… — Robert T. Bakker
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape.… — Jim Dale
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing
These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. — Norton Simon
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. — Mikhail Gorbachev
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. — Robert T. Bakker
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change… — Willard Van Orman Quine
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are.… — Ad Reinhardt
We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main… — Katherine Dunham
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this… — Antonio Tabucchi
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library… — Melvil Dewey
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources… — Charles Spurgeon
I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's… — Chris Kilham
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now… — Robert Ballard
Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept — Thomas Ernest Hulme
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio de Chirico

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