Museums Quotes

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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this. — Vivienne Westwood
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. — Rainn Wilson
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. — Steven Wright
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… — Martin Filler
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view… — Martin Filler
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up… — Martin Filler
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can… — Cherie Lunghi
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. — Eoin Colfer
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… — Oliver Sacks
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough. — Ralph Ellison
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own… — Hakim Bey
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing… — Daniel Handler
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the… — Banksy
I really would like to stop working foreverâ€“never work again, never do anything like the kind of work Iâ€™m doing nowâ€“and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for… — Haruki Murakami
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing… — John Updike
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs

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