Museums Quotes

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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art,… — David Amram
We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. — Glenn Gould
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help… — Sarah Vowell
In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide… — Albert Camus
I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a… — John Waters
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the… — James Rosenquist
No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I… — Sarah
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. — Iggy Azalea
The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen
A theater without beer is just a museum — Bertolt Brecht
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I… — J. D. Daniels
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce
The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to… — Newt Gingrich
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,… — Oliver Lodge
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the… — David Lack
Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has… — D. H. Lawrence
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. — Richard Stengel

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