262 Quotes About Museums
- Author Jennifer Niven
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I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.
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- Author Amy Davidson
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There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.
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- Author Janet Fitch
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The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.
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- Author Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen
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The gods are made of marble Deep inside a museum A quadruped monster beckons me to approach("Outcries")
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- Author E.M. Forster
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She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
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- Author David Mitchell
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People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there.
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- Author Monica O Montgomery
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Education is the lifeblood of museums.
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- Author Diego Rivera
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From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning -- that's quite a record time for a visitor to stay at a museum," [Henry Ford] continued. "It proves that you may be even more interested in mechanics than I am. And you almost have to be a fanatic to compete with me. That's certainly something!" he exclaimed, grinning broad approval of our common bond.
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- Author David Attenborough
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
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