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Letter "M" » museum
«I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.»
«That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.»
Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
| Keywords:
museum
«Since nudes in all countries and centuries possess standard equipment, it's difficult to say precisely why the pictures at the Brooklyn Museum right now are so thoroughly American.»
«Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.»
Author: Joseph Wechsberg
(Reporter, Writer)
| Keywords:
Italians, kremlin, museum, Old Italian, peter, PM, St. Petersburg, stage set, St Peter, St Petersburg, the French
«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.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
art museums, cemetery, deductible, galleries, gallery, museum, pass by, portraits, tax deductible
«I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.»
«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.»
Author: Conan O'Brien
(Writer)
| Keywords:
African-American, African, Africans, called for, held up, location, Locations, museum, neighborhood, neighborhoods, Republicans
«If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
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British, British Museum, British people, Marxism, museum, the British
«Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
archaeologist, archaeologists, attempts, co-ordinate, co, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, First hand, illustrate, illustrated, lecture, museum, object lesson, ordinate, rigged, sickening, systematize, systematized, theories, unsound
«One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators.»
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