#museum

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#hears #more #museum #nonsense #perhaps

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. ↗

— John Hawkes

#art #better #better actor #come #end

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#because #book #later #like #living

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome. ↗

— Yann Martel

#array #big #big cities #cities #endless

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#everything #feel #here #just #like

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. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#board #doing #go #good #i

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#bar #club #go #going #meet

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#bill #bill gates #build #first #first thing

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#customer #dusty #end #filter #final

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. ↗

— Jill Scott

#became #growing #growing up #helped #i