262 Quotes About Museums
- Author Dear Abbey
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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- Author Diane Ackerman
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The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.
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- Author Edward Abbey
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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.
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- Author Iggy Azalea
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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- Author Kate Atkinson
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
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- Author Tadao Andō
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I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.
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- Author Albert Barnes
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The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
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- Author Albert Barnes
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution
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- Author Ambrose Bierce
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PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
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