Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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 Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now...
In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history...
Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
People buy such bollocks at museums. They don't know what else to do once they're there.
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...
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
Closing a museum to save money is like holding your breath to save oxygen...
History is a madman's museum.
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
