Quotes by Museums The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure. Eduardo Chillida adventure museums looks I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute. Eduardo Galeano education museums past Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. Edward Abbey horse museums art 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. Edward Abbey world-literature pay museums You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... Edward Steichen wall typewriters museums Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. Eli Broad cities museums america I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours. Eli Broad party three museums Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. Eli Broad exhibitions museums art 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. Eli Broad memphis stuff museums Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper. Elizabeth Kolbert distance men museums If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. Elizabeth Perkins bars night museums I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good. Elliott Erwitt eastern berlin museums [On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table. Elsa Maxwell trying museums book A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. Eoin Colfer cds technology museums If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect. Emma Watson lasts museums long The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment. Eric Drooker clients museums art Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead. Eric Drooker archives ends museums Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive. Eric Drooker artist museums thinking Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. Erich Maria Remarque perfect museums Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums. Erin Morgenstern glasses museums ideas «345678910111213»