Museums Quotes

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Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to… — Richard J. Evans
I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every… — Nancy Lancaster
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never… — Van Day Truex
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were,… — A. A. Gill
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting… — Ai Weiwei
I think that objects have memories. Iâ€™m always thinking that Iâ€™ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some… — Kiki Smith
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. — Igor Babailov
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was… — Amy Plum
Designers shouldnâ€™t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm… — Michael Jackson
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your… — Richard Saul Wurman
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear. — Charles Bukowski
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. — Bill Wyman
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine… — Noam Chomsky
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be… — Aldo Leopold
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington
A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. — Wendy Beckett
The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves. — Diane Ackerman

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