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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. -- Arnold Palmer
Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn. -- Alan King
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. -- Robert Smithson
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No. -- Eli Broad
Museums, I love museums. -- Tony Randall
Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff. -- William Thorsell
[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world. -- Ai Weiwei
Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience. -- Scotty Cameron
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. -- George Lois
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. -- Damien Hirst
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. -- Hans Haacke
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums. -- Jeremiah Walton
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
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality. -- Thomas P. Campbell
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers. -- Richard Meier
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture. -- Orhan Pamuk
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play. -- John Updike
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality. -- Georg Baselitz
I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art. -- Susan Stroman
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. -- Andrew Motion
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power. -- Orhan Pamuk
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. -- Thomas P. Campbell
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated. -- John Hodgman
A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point. -- Tino Sehgal
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. -- Pablo Picasso
Museums that aren't perfect are the ones that I love. Museums that aren't overdesigned. I always like to visit the strange, odd museums. In New York, the Frick is absolutely my favorite, favorite place because I like to think that it was someone's home not that long ago. -- Reed Krakoff
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues. -- Mason Cooley
Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. -- Gary Oldman
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. -- Renzo Piano
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. -- Julie Harris
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. -- Peter De Vries
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. -- Abigail Van Buren
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. -- Robert T. Bakker
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. -- Roger Caras
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. -- Jules de Goncourt
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. -- Arthur Eddington
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do. -- George Gaylord Simpson
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums. -- F. Sionil Jose
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. -- Vladimir Putin
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. -- Robert Smithson
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. -- George Santayana
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. -- Steven Wright
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. -- David Attenborough
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy. -- Alan Dershowitz
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. -- Kristin Chenoweth
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became. -- Jill Scott
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. -- Paul Allen
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. -- Eli Broad
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything. -- Isaac Mizrahi
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. -- Jerry Saltz
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important -- Issey Miyake
I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life. -- Camille Henrot
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. -- Salvador Dali
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. -- Daniel Libeskind
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. -- Sara Sheridan
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. -- Margaret Oliphant
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. -- Jim Dale
You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones. -- Judith Miller
Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato. -- Jim Gaffigan
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. -- Zaha Hadid
I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! -- Catherine Bell
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. -- Dan Rather
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. -- Richie Sambora
I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the museums open until dawn. You can go and hang out in Versailles in the middle of the night and watch the sun come up. -- Anna Wintour
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. -- Hans Haacke
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings. -- Jane Birkin
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Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good. -- Marc Jacobs
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful. -- Leonard Nimoy
I don't like museums, I like labs. -- Amit Kalantri
Stop looking at the walls, look out the window. -- Karl Pilkington
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date. -- E. M. Forster
People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there. -- David Mitchell
The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated. -- Janet Fitch
We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. -- Mandy Hale
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. -- Robert McKee
There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are. -- Amy Davidson
We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world? -- Rick Riordan
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. -- Orhan Pamuk
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share? -- Orhan Pamuk
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. -- Orhan Pamuk
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). -- Alain de Botton
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. -- Orhan Pamuk
If he really wanted to be happy in the world, Horst? To have any kind of joyful or happy life? He should pay twenty grand to go back to his rapid detox place and then come here and smoke Buddha Haze and stand in a museum all day long. -- Donna Tartt
We are all museums of fear. -- Charles Bukowski
I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy. -- Violet Trefusis
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks. -- Mason Cooley
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. -- Eoin Colfer
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag. -- Peter Zumthor
Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. -- Vartan Gregorian
Our universities and museums are respected around the country. -- Jane Byrne
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. -- Henry James
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. -- Orhan Pamuk
The only place where poverty should be is in museums. -- Muhammad Yunus
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. -- Theodore Zeldin
I love museums. But I don't want to live in one. -- Tim Cook
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums. -- Julie Gonzalo
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. -- Peter De Vries
We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. -- Pope Francis
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography. -- Bill Wyman
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. -- Andy Warhol
I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours. -- Eli Broad
Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. -- Ralph Caplan
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies. -- Mason Cooley
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. -- Bill Viola
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear. -- Charles Bukowski
I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me. -- Sonia Rykiel
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. -- Muhammad Yunus
All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future -- Max Tegmark
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. -- Bill Dedman
I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. -- Elliott Erwitt
Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles. -- Jesse Ventura
The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined. -- Robert Ballard
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums, -- Banksy
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough. -- Ralph Ellison
I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future. -- Ai Weiwei
Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums. -- Milo

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