262 Quotes About Museums

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

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.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

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.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

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

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.