Museums Quotes

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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
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs… — Rick Steves
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
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the… — Leonard Nimoy
Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept — Thomas Ernest Hulme
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,… — Henry James
We have so much information but maybe we donâ€™t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of… — Pope Francis
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
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures â€“ it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family… — Mata Amritanandamayi
DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum. — Tony Stewart
I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be… — Winsor McCay
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
Art should be created for life, not for the museum — Jean Nouvel
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is… — Michael Steinhardt
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories. — Peter S. Beagle
I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy. — Violet Trefusis
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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