Museums Quote by Theodore Levitt

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative…

— Peter Jackson

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

— Miles Davis

I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.

— Billy Mays

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”

— Wallace Stegner

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must…

— Aldo Leopold

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of…

— Eva Zeisel

“To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ”

— Nâzım Hikmet

“In the king’s bed is always found, just before it becomes a museum piece, the droppings of the black sheep.”

— Nathanael West

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a…

— Ernie Colon

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative…

— Robert Hewison

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz