List Of Museums Quotes

Where Do You Get Your Ideas? People Ask. Sometimes They’re At The Bottoms Of Cups Of Tea. Sometimes They’re Lurking In My Shower. Sometimes They’re Waiting Patiently In Glass Cases In Museums.

Sometimes I Feel Like A Caretaker Of A Museum -- A Huge, Empty Museum Where No One Ever Comes, And I'm Watching Over It For No One But Myself.

The Thing That Helps Me Do A Good Job Is That I Don't Feel The Need To Explain Everything About The World To My Reader. I'm Not Writing A History Text On The Four Corners. I'm Telling A Story That's Set There. The Setting Belongs In The Background For The Most Part, And It's Easy For Fantasy Authors To Forget That. That's One Of The Unfortunate Parts Of Tolkien's Legacy, In My Opinion. Read The First Hundred Pages Of The Fellowship Of The Ring And You Start To Get Pissed, "shut Up About The Shire's Museums! Isn't The World Supposed To Be In Peril Or Something?"

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.

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

They Took All The Trees And Put Them In A Tree Museum.

It's A Lovely Experience Walking Around A Museum By Yourself.

Until The Eighties, Oslo Was A Rather Boring Town, But It's Changed A Lot, And Is Now Much More Cosmopolitan. If I Go Downtown, I Visit The Harbour To See The Tall Ships And The Ferries, And To Admire The Modern Architecture Such As The Opera House Or The New Astrup Fearnley Museum On The Water's Edge.

The Best Of The Artist's Art, Which Will One Day Be In A Museum Wall, The Painting That Sets The Artist Apart Of All Other Artist Artists.

The History Of Successful Cases, Some Of Which Are In This Museum, Illustrates That Often The Regulators And Legislatures Don't Wake Up Until Some Plaintiff Gets A Lawyers And Digs Out The Cover-ups And The Incriminating Information About A Safety Defect In An Automobile Or Another Product.

The People Who Make Art Their Business Are Mostly Imposters.

A Museum Is A Place Where One Should Lose One's Head.

By A Museum, I Assume You Mean An Institution Dedicated To The Events Of Sept. 11 And The Aftermath. If That Is Done With Sensitivity, I Think It Would Be Most Appropriate.

They Decided To Establish A Museum Of Modern Art Where Works By Contemporary Artists Would Be Shown. Mother Was Viewed As A Very Progressive Person, And Not Everybody Liked The Paintings She Bought.

The Role Of A Museum Of Modern Art Is To Make A Good Selection And Identify What We Believe To Be The Coming Movements, And That Requires Taste.

A Museum Has To Renew Its Collection To Be Alive, But That Does Not Mean We Give On Important Old Works.

The Religion Of Art, Like The Religion Of Politics, Was Born From The Ruins Of Christianity. Art Inherited From The Old Religion The Power Of Consecrating Things And Endowing Them With A Sort Of Eternity; Museums Are Our Temples, And The Objects Displayed In Them Are Beyond History. Politics--or More Precisely, Revolution--co-opted The Other Function Of Religion: Changing Human Beings And Society. Art Was An Asceticism, A Spiritual Heroism; Revolution Was The Construction Of A Universal Church.

We Live In What Virtually Amounts To A Museum - Which Does Not Happen To A Lot Of People.

I Do Not Know How Wicked American Millionaires Are, But As I Travel About And See The Results Of Their Generosity In The Form Of Hospitals, Churches, Public Libraries, Universities, Parks, Recreation Grounds, Art Museums And Theatres I Wonder What On Earth We Should Do Without Them.

Japan Suffered Terribly From The Atomic Bomb But Never Adopted A Pose Of Moral Superiority, Implying: 'we Would Never Have Done It!' The Japanese Know Perfectly Well They Would Have Used It Had They Had It. They Accept The Idea That War Is War; They Give No Quarter And Accept None. Total War, They Recognize, Knows No Queensberry Rules. If You Develop A Devastating New Weapon During A Total War, You Use It; You Do Not Put It Into The War Museum.

The World's Becoming A Museum Of Socialist Failures.

I Go Into A Gallery Or Museum, And I Realize That I Don't Have To Formulate Any Opinions If I Don't Want To. I Don't Have To Think This Thing Through And Write About It At Any Great Length. I Can Think About It If I Want To; If Not, I Can Just Walk Out. So I Can Enjoy Painting Really A Lot More Than I Could When I Had That Sort Of Pressure.

I Sailed On The Cold Air Currents Above The Rooftops Of Paris. I Could See The River, The Louvre Museum, The Gardens And Palaces. And A Mouse-yum. Hang On, Carter, I Thought. Not Hunting Mice.

I Guess It Started In London, The Night Our Dad Blew Up The British Museum.