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Image of Fred D'Aguiar
I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.
- Fred D'Aguiar
Collection: Museums
Image of Laura Mullen
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.
- Laura Mullen
Collection: Museums
Image of Sarnath Banerjee
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.
- Sarnath Banerjee
Collection: Museums
Image of Mark Twain
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Museums
Image of Chuck Palahniuk
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.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Collection: Museums
Image of Haruki Murakami
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.
- Haruki Murakami
Collection: Museums
Image of Muhammad Yunus
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
- Muhammad Yunus
Collection: Museums
Image of Muhammad Yunus
The only place where poverty should be is in museums.
- Muhammad Yunus
Collection: Museums
Image of Erin Morgenstern
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.
- Erin Morgenstern
Collection: Museums
Image of Richard Simmons
I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.
- Richard Simmons
Collection: Museums
Image of Susan Sontag
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.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Museums
Image of Bill McKibben
The earth is a museum of divine intent.
- Bill McKibben
Collection: Museums
Image of Ai Weiwei
[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Museums
Image of Alain de Botton
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
Collection: Museums
Image of Ai Weiwei
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.
- Ai Weiwei
Collection: Museums
Image of Susan Sontag
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Museums
Image of Virginia Woolf
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.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Museums
Image of Derek Landy
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.
- Derek Landy
Collection: Museums
Image of Kevin Hearne
If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.
- Kevin Hearne
Collection: Museums
Image of Timothy Keller
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Museums
Image of Donald Trump
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Museums
Image of Rick Riordan
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.]
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Museums
Image of Prince Philip
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.
- Prince Philip
Collection: Museums
Image of Gertrude Stein
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
- Gertrude Stein
Collection: Museums
Image of Jean Baudrillard
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.
- Jean Baudrillard
Collection: Museums
Image of Andy Warhol
The best museum is Bloomingdales.
- Andy Warhol
Collection: Museums
Image of Edward Abbey
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.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Museums
Image of Garry Winogrand
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.
- Garry Winogrand
Collection: Museums
Image of Charles Bukowski
We are all museums of fear.
- Charles Bukowski
Collection: Museums
Image of Yohji Yamamoto
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.
- Yohji Yamamoto
Collection: Museums
Image of Sonia Rykiel
I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.
- Sonia Rykiel
Collection: Museums
Image of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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.
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Collection: Museums
Image of Nan Goldin
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
- Nan Goldin
Collection: Museums
Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Collection: Museums
Image of Paul Virilio
A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: Museums
Image of Robert Genn
Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
- Robert Genn
Collection: Museums
Image of Hans F. Sennholz
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.
- Hans F. Sennholz
Collection: Museums
Image of Michael Chabon
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.
- Michael Chabon
Collection: Museums
Image of Billy Crystal
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.
- Billy Crystal
Collection: Museums
Image of Tim Cook
I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.
- Tim Cook
Collection: Museums
Image of Jarvis Cocker
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.
- Jarvis Cocker
Collection: Museums
Image of Rachelle Lefevre
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.
- Rachelle Lefevre
Collection: Museums
Image of Wayne White
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.
- Wayne White
Collection: Museums
Image of Mason Cooley
A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Museums
Image of Mason Cooley
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Museums
Image of Mason Cooley
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Museums
Image of Friedrich Engels
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.
- Friedrich Engels
Collection: Museums
Image of Andrew Bird
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.
- Andrew Bird
Collection: Museums
Image of Tadao Ando
I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.
- Tadao Ando
Collection: Museums