Artifacts Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“The posters and rock-star buttons and banners were valueless without the perspective of the mind that had attached significance to them. Souvenirs have no…

— David Morrell

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

— Lucy Worsley

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not.

— Susan Spano

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

— William Gaddis

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about…

— Kiki Smith

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in…

— Muhammad Yunus

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look…

— Tino Sehgal

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell…

— Nate

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

— Broderick Crawford

I'm a shopaholic when I travel. I have a large collection of artifacts from all over the world at my house, some of which…

— Mariana van Zeller