Museums Quotes

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

  Abigail Van Buren

  Religion, Church, Saint

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• A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

  Maira Kalman

  Our Lives

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• Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Real, Space, Familiar Places

  Orhan Pamuk (2009). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.510, Vintage

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• When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

  Gertrude Stein

  Walks, Walking

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• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

  Hans Haacke

  Educational, Views, Giving

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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

  William Thorsell

  Raises Questions, Stuff, Should

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• Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Education, Book, Thinking

  "Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography". Book by David Hofstede, 1994.

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

  Renzo Piano

  Architect, Should, Loses

  "8 Unconventional - And Brilliant - Ideas for Getting Over a Breakup" by Kate Friedman, www.glamour.com. June 1, 2017.

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• The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, People, Purpose

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• It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

  Antony Gormley

  Conversation, Valuable, Objects

  "The heart of Albertopolis", www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2007.

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

  Wendy Beckett

  Country, Art, Mean

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• 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.

  Martin Filler

  Tasks, Generations, Edification

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• History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

  Robert Smithson

  Vacancy, May, Abstract

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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  Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational Sports, Art, Athlete

  Arnold Palmer (2016). “A Life Well Played: My Stories”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

  Richard Meier

  Character, Personality, Ends

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Looks, Tombs

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• An art book is a museum without walls.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Wall, Book

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  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.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Growing Up, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Rudolf Bing

  Modern, Function, Masterpiece

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• The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Artist, Surface

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• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  Helen Keller

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Self, Intellectual, Meals

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• Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Matter, Void

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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