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We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. Rudolf Bing | top
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Abigail Van Buren | top
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs | top
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. Chuck Close | top
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. Salvador Dali | top
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A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. John Cotton Dana | top
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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 | top
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There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. Julie Harris | top
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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. Robert Hewison | top
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. Ferguson Jenkins | top
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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 | top
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. Lewis H. Lapham | top
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. Daniel Libeskind | top
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I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. Pierre Loti | top
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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 | top
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Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important. Issey Miyake | top
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Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. Conan O'Brien | top
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. Arnold Palmer | top
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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 | top
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Museums, I love museums. Tony Randall | top
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. Ad Reinhardt | top
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The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. David Rockefeller | top
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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 | top
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. Antonio Tabucchi | top
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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 | top