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I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.Collection: Museums
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.Collection: Museums
The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes.Collection: Museums
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.Collection: Museums
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.Collection: 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.Collection: Museums
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.Collection: Museums
The only place where poverty should be is in museums.Collection: Museums
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.Collection: Museums
I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.Collection: Museums
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.Collection: Museums
The earth is a museum of divine intent.Collection: Museums
[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.Collection: Museums
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).Collection: Museums
The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.Collection: Museums
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).Collection: Museums
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.Collection: Museums
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.Collection: Museums
If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.Collection: Museums
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.Collection: Museums
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.Collection: Museums
I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]Collection: Museums
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.Collection: Museums
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.Collection: Museums
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.Collection: Museums
The best museum is Bloomingdales.Collection: Museums
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.Collection: Museums
The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.Collection: Museums
We are all museums of fear.Collection: Museums
At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.Collection: Museums
I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.Collection: Museums
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.Collection: Museums
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.Collection: Museums
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.Collection: Museums
A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.Collection: Museums
Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.Collection: Museums
The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.Collection: Museums
There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.Collection: Museums
Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.Collection: Museums
I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.Collection: Museums
I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in now I can sort of trace back to that museum, which introduced me to them.Collection: Museums
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.Collection: Museums
Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.Collection: Museums
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.Collection: Museums
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.Collection: Museums
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.Collection: Museums
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.Collection: Museums
What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.Collection: Museums
I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.Collection: Museums