Museums Quotes - Page 22

• We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Unity, Atheism

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.14

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• I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown.' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal.'

  Rob Gronkowski

  Art, Goal, One Day

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• It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be as best as possible put back together. So it's an argument to say, maybe that's one of those instances, like the bust of Nefertiti, I think that should be given back [Egyptian piece currently in Neues Museum in Berlin]. It's one of those pieces you look at and think that would probably be the right thing to do.

  George Clooney

  Art, Thinking, Together

  "The Monuments Men - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Book, Trying, Useless

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!

  Wanda Landowska

  Music, Blessed, Reading

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• the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  People, Library, Want

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• it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Art, People, Alive

  Santha Rama Rau (1945). “Home to India”

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• A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

  James Lileks

  Children, Training, Poor

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• This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Religion, Wonder

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• I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

  Richard Simmons

  House, Dolls, Kind

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Sweet, Rain, Biblical

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.157, Northwestern University Press

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• Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Cities, Shopping, Dallas

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• I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

  Ashley Jensen

  Smell, Church, Florence

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• A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Art, Breathing, Argument

  "Why public spaces must allow private thoughts" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  School, Drs, Firsts

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Illustration, Ideas

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• Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

  Milo

  Interesting, Furniture, Very Interesting

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• My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Teacher, Art

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

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• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Wall, Book

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Government, Theatre, Tourists

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

  Mark Teixeira

  New York, Son, Favorite Places

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• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Honor

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• People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

  Francisco Costa

  Beach, People, Sophisticated

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• I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.

  David Chipperfield

  Real, Media, Years

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonatahan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I was troubled by the presence of a shoe museum because it forced me to ask a very burning question: would my body be able to physically survive the amount of dope I would need to smoke in order to visit a shoeseum?

  Arj Barker

  Dope, Order, Shoes

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