Museums Quotes

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.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

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.

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.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.