Museums Quotes

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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.

The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.

Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

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

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

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.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.

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.

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.