#museum

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#natural-history #change

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. ↗

— Richard Stengel

#great #headquarters #incredibly #museums #number

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #good #home #i #just

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

#had #heads #i #museum #museums

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

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#independent #moved #museum #new #new york

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. ↗

— Paul Allen

#best #could #exhibits #feeling #give

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. ↗

— Jim Dale

#also #costumes #custodians #filled #museum