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There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.


Julie Harris


#museums #musicals #photographs #wonderful

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.


Roger Caras


#greatest #historical #museums #others #our

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.


Robert Smithson


#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.


Robert Smithson


#into #like #looks #museum #museums

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


Robert Smithson


#act #graveyards #memories #museums #parks

If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musee du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now mostly been transferred to the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume. I went there nearly every day for the Cezannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago. I was learning something from the painting of Cezanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides, it was a secret. But if the light was gone in the Luxembourg I would walk up through the gardens and stop in at the studio apartment where Gertrude Stein lived at 27 rue de Fleurus.


Ernest Hemingway


#ernest-hemingway #france #museums #paris #art

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!


David Sedaris


#brueghel #museums #proof #art

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

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.


Robert McKee


#emotion #experience #mood #museums #story

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






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