“ In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. ”
- Edmond and Jules De Goncourt- Copy
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“ I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery. ”
- Jeff Koons- Copy
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“ Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
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“ I'll take any way to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy. ”
- Phil Rizzuto- Copy
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“ Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ”
- Robert Hewison- Copy
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“ Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. ”
- Michel Leiris- Copy
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“ I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me. ”
- Jennifer Jason Leigh- Copy
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“ Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. ”
- Neil Young- Copy
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“ Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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“ Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ”
- Bryant H. McGill- Copy
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“ History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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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… ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them… ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief… Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist… ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way… They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down… ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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