Quotes with museums

  • As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
  • Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it.

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  • Karl Marx Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Margaret Oliphant As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Jonathan Miller Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstrap they would flock to it.
    Jonathan Miller
    English theatre and opera actor, author and television presenter (1934 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Henry James In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Robert Hewison Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
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  • George Santayana It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Gates Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
    Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Brad Holland New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Pablo Picasso Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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