262 Quotes About Museums
- Author Nanette L. Avery
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Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...
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- Author Carrie Adams
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I climbed the wide stone steps to the museum and walked in. As soon as you are through the doors, the air changes. It is softer. The building has the ability to wrap itself around you, making you feel safe. All the animosity if the street is left outside, for everyone in there has come for the same reason. To be humbled by art.
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- Author Max Beerbohm
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The reading-room?"“Of the British Museum. I go there every day.”“You do? I've only been there once. I'm afraid I found it rather a depressing place. It—it seemed to sap one's vitality.""It doe. That's why I go there. The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
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- Author Amy Whitaker
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In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experience of looking at art becomes a form of consumption.
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- Author Sharon Waxman
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As cultural politics change, museums change with them.
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- Author Kiese Laymon
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It was actually a museum. At least that's what the sign said. It read, "The Lerthon Coldson Civil Rights Museum." It made me kind of mad that the museum was named after a grimy drunk dude who called a girl "baby," but I figured lots of museums were named for part-time losers.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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The amusement park was our best invention; the museum our worst.
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- Author E. Haven Hawley
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The framework that heritage professionals create for understanding the meanings of objects over time comes to shape the legacy-seeking behaviors of the very people whose objects we must acquire in order to maintain cultural authority.
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- Author Orhan Pamuk
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In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
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