Museums Quotes

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Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death… — Robert Hewison
Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. — Vartan Gregorian
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate… — Jock Sturges
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest… — Richard Fortey
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in… — Richard Fortey
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic… — Richard Fortey
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti
Donâ€™t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead… — Jerry Saltz
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. — Maira Kalman
Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: â€œBut in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean… — Sarah Kay
Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures… — Otto Neurath
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South… — Junichiro Koizumi
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself… — Julia Margaret Cameron
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones. — Donald McCaig
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
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. — Robert T. Bakker
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me,… — Jack Handey
Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing. — Nicky Gumbel

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