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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
- Arthur Eddington
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My favourite museum is the British Museum.
- Felipe Anderson
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For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
- Neil MacGregor
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We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.
- Jim Dale
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The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
- Thomas P. Campbell
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What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.
- Thomas P. Campbell
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
- William Eggleston
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I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.
- Carrie Mae Weems
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We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
- David Amram
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Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.
- Robert Smithson
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
- Banksy
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I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.
- Mack Wilberg
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It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires special conditions. I would like it to be universal.
- Antony Gormley
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To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.
- Christopher Gorham
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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.
- Iggy Azalea
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Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.
- Jes Macallan
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
- Kate Williams
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For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
- Neil MacGregor
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A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
- Neil MacGregor
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The museum at Ortles is dedicated to the world of ice so we wanted visitors to feel like they were inside a glacier.
- Reinhold Messner
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.
- Shawn Levy
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At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.
- Tony Bradman
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
- Quentin Blake
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When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade.
- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
- Orhan Pamuk
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
- Rafael Moneo
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I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.
- James Spader
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The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.
- Sarah Lancashire
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The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'
- Judith Durham
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I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.
- Brad Pitt
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What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
- John Hodgman
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I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.
- Marcel Dzama
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We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
- Nicholas Lea
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
- Melinda Gates
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
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I developed an interest in the history of the Negro leagues to the point where I visited the museum in Kansas City, Mo., twice and made the museum an integral part of my unheralded 2005 coming-of-age baseball novel, 'Scooter.'
- Mick Foley
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Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.
- Bill Nelson
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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
- Robert Smithson
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There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
- Jasper Johns
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The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
- Martin Filler
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A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
- Renzo Piano
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The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.
- Mario Botta
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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
- Robert Smithson
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The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.
- Russell Howard
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I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit bazaar, where art is haggled over and handled like any other commodity.
- Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
- Pauline Phillips
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Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
- Kate Williams
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The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.
- Neil MacGregor
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I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.
- Mario Botta
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A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.
- Mario Botta
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
- John Burroughs
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
- Edmond de Goncourt
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
- Edmond de Goncourt
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A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
- David Rockefeller
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There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
- Dean Martin
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Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums.
- Martin Filler
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What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.
- Peter Falk
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I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
- David Hasselhoff
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It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
- Brad Pitt
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When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
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I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.
- Amy Heckerling
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
- Larry Ellison
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
- Larry Ellison
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
- Gary Oldman
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An art book is a museum without walls.
- Andre Malraux
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Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
- Jean Nouvel
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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
- Evan Davis
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
- Kate Williams
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
- J. Paul Getty
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
- Yogi Berra
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
- Pablo Picasso
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Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.
- Frank Gehry
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
- Steven Wright
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