Museums Quotes - Page 14

• The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Empty, Angry

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• We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

  Aldo Leopold

  Rivers, Environmental, Pieces

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.559, Library of America

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• Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Isis, Holocaust

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at...
  The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

  Edward Steichen

  Wall, Typewriters, Guy

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

  Glenn Gould

  Records, Curator, Owners

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• There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

  Sarah Vowell

  Prayer, Talking, Apples

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Italian, Littles

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

  James Rosenquist

  Simple, Hair, Pigs

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• No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah

  Writing, Trying, One Day

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• I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

  Winsor McCay

  Dream, Art, Character

  Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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• The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

  Tania Bruguera

  Art, Twenties, Today

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• There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

  J. D. Daniels

  Rainy Day, Rocks, Interesting

  J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House

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• 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

  Flags, Confederate, Confederate Flag

  Source: www.npr.org

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• PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Practice, Periods

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a mosque next to a place where 3,000 Americans were killed by radical Islamists. Those folks don't have any interest in reaching out to the community. They're trying to make a case about supremacy... This happens all the time in America. Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Holocaust, Community

  "Newt Gingrich's Legacy As A Political Commentator: Smears, Falsehoods, And Inflammatory Rhetoric" by Fae Jencks and David Shere, www.mediamatters.org. March 2, 2011.

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• If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

  Oliver Lodge

  Time, Science, Space

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1914). “Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913”

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• Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.

  David Lack

  Science, Garden, Might

  David Lack (1947). “Darwin's Finches”, p.23, CUP Archive

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• The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

  Melvil Dewey

  Teacher, Book, School

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best museums with them.

  Mark Kostabi

  Done, World, Satisfaction

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• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Venice

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• I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's going to be a museum exhibit in a couple of decades if we don't stop the deforestation.

  Chris Kilham

  Couple, Medicine, Facts

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• 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.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean, Sea, Land

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• Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.

  T. E. Hulme

  Inspiration, Weapons, Prose

  "Selected Writings".

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• We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.

  Pope Francis

  Running, Knowing, People

  "FULL TEXT: Pope Francis' message, youth encounter, UST". Pope Francis' speech at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, www.rappler.com. January 18, 2015.

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