Museum Quotes
Museum Quote of the day
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.
Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.
Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.
I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.
My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.
Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.
I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
If ever you want a rainbow in your home, go to Sandwich Glass Museum, and let them put one in your heart too.
Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.