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.
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Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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I have enjoyed the experience at the museum, and I particularly celebrate the incredible dedication of the museum staff. There are some terrific programs already under way, with more to come.
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put t...
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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.
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Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.
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You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene
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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.
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
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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.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
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Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.
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Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
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