“ I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ”
- John Burroughs- 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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“ 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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“ As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. ”
- Margaret Oliphant- 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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“ 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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“ In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. ”
- Mario Botta- 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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“ I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. ”
- Stephen Wright- Copy
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“ One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators. ”
- Steven Wright- 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. ”
- Roger Caras- Copy
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“ Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. ”
- Anne Herbert- Copy
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“ If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. ”
- Glenn Gould- Copy
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“ The library, with its tall bays and overhanging gallery, looked east and was already rather dark. Harriet found it restful. ”
- Dorothy L. Sayers- Copy
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“ The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. ”
- Paul Allen- Copy
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