Quotes of: British-museum Keyword

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.

Thomas Mars

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

Robert Smithson

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

Robert T. Bakker

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Margaret Oliphant

I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.

David H. Koch

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

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

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

Vladimir Putin

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

Thomas P. Campbell

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Martin Filler

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

Martin Filler

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

Mila Kunis

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

David Rockefeller

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Edmond de Goncourt

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Vivienne Westwood

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

Zaha Hadid

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant.

Louis Tomlinson

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its h...

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

Noel Clarke