Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renzo Piano

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Vivienne Westwood

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Wayne White

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

Ruzwana Bashir

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Norton Simon

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

Mark Twain

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Eli Broad

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Maira Kalman

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

Jo Nesbo

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Henry James

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.

Diego Maradona

Pele should go back to the museum.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

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.

Brad Pitt

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Alain de Botton

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Billy Crystal

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

Edward Abbey

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Donald Trump

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

Adam Carolla

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

Ann Landers

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

Dean Martin

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Chuck Palahniuk

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

Andrew Bird

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

David Attenborough

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Andy Warhol

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

Robert Barry

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Susan Sontag

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

Tony Randall

Museums, I love museums.

Simon Hoggart

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.

Rick Riordan

I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

Rudolf Bing

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.