Museums Quotes

480 quotes by 383 authors

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. — David Attenborough
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but… — Elayne Boosler
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation.… — Christina Aguilera
Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. — Eli Broad
I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours. — Eli Broad
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with… — Eli Broad
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they… — 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 I see how… — Chuck Close
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation… — 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 back of a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of… — Anatole France
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 living portraits but… — Lewis H. Lapham
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. — Roger Caras
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. — Prince Philip

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