#muse

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

#art #department #department store #easily #established

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#attempt #dean #dean martin #enjoyed #everybody

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money. ↗

— Alex Grey

#boston #doing #going #had #i

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#anthrax #been #brought #even #fact

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#countries #eager #for the people #i #i think

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

#country #death #dedicated #education #fine

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs. ↗

— Andres Iniesta

#made #museum #photographs

There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#doing #how #i #look #thats

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#art #individuality #life #museums #art