«Museums»
17 quotes & wishes
Quotes and wishes: «Museums»
A cultural necessity
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.
(Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum)
Richard Fortey
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A painting in a museum
A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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A place where one should lose one’s head
A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.
Renzo Piano
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After all
After all, isn’t the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
(The Museum of Innocence)
Orhan Pamuk
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All great paintings
Eventually, all great paintings end up in museums.
Jacques Barbeau
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Back to who we are
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.
Amy Davidson
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Before the paintings you’ve seen begin to run together
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you’ve seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind’s eye?
(The Swan Thieves)
Elizabeth Kostova
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In poetically well built museums
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart’s compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
(The Museum of Innocence)
Orhan Pamuk
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Places where you raise questions
Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.
William Thorsell
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Real museums
Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
(The Museum of Innocence)
Orhan Pamuk
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Sources of pleasure and inspiration
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.
Helen Keller
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That is enough to justify museums
The only way to understand painting is to go and look at it. And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The more art you see…
The best introduction to art is to stroll through a museum. The more art you see, the more you’ll learn to define your own taste.
Jeanne Frank
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The primary purpose of the Museum
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
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To preserve the past
To preserve the past is to save the future...
Nanette L. Avery
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When in a museum
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
Gertrude Stein
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You want to study the great of the past
If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past...
Nelson Shanks
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