Top 485 Museums Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."
The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.
There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for me and I couldn't have it.
We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.
All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
I love ruins and museums but, if I've been working hard, I enjoy a beach holiday.
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there's always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It's a great jewel box.
Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.
I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.
I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.
I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.
Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.
Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.
