"An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there."

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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."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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

Roger Caras, American Activist

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"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, British Musician

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"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures."

George Segal, American Actor

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"Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."

Henry James, American Writer

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"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."

Elizabeth Perkins, American Actress

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

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"An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

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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."

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

"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."

"Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures."

"Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while."

"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."

"If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums."

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

"An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there."

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"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."

"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."