Museums Quotes

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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have… — Isaac Mizrahi
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not… — Charles Darwin
The only place where poverty should be is in museums. — Muhammad Yunus
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see… — Muhammad Yunus
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full… — Italo Svevo
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but… — Muhammad Yunus
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. — Claes Oldenburg
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. — Jules de Goncourt
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond de Goncourt
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. — George Gaylord Simpson
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of… — Irving Howe
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. — Bill Viola
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something… — Paul Allen
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be… — Michelangelo Pistoletto
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin. — David M. Raup
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… — Martin Filler
The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop. — Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished… — Victor Hugo
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or… — Margaret Mead

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