Quotes about Museums, Art and History

Quotes virtually Museums, Art and History

~~~

"I pigment flowers so they will non die."
– Frida Kahlo

~~~

"Painter, you are not a speaker! Paint so and be silent!"
– Salvador Dali

~~~

"A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums every bit often as you can."
– Maira Kalman

~~~

"It's not a museum. Information technology'southward not a place of artifacts; it's a identify of ideas."
– Jeanie Kahnke

~~~

"The modern world thinks of art as very of import:
something shut to the pregnant of life."
– Alain de Botton

~~~

"Every kid is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist one time you lot we grow upward."
– Pablo Picasso

~~~

"The best introduction to fine art is to stroll through a museum.
The more fine art you see, the more you'll learn to define your own sense of taste."
– Jeanne Frank

~~~

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I fix him gratis."
– Michelangelo

~~~

"I want to make of Impressionism an art every bit solid as that of the museums."
– Paul Cézanne

~~~

"If you lot don't know history, then you don't know anything.
You are a leaf that doesn't know it is office of a tree."
– Michael Crichton

~~~

"If his centre rules him, his conscience volition soon take the place of the rod."
– Ancient Egyptian Proverb

~~~

"Young poets imitate; mature poets steal."
– T. South. Eliot

~~~

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I salve if there was a fire? The 1 nearest the door of course."
– George Bernard Shaw

~~~

"What y'all are doing does non matter and so much as what y'all are learning from doing it.
It is meliorate not to know and to know that one does not know than presumptuously to attribute some random meaning to symbols."
– Ancient Egyptian Saying

~~~

"Art is limitation. The essence of every moving-picture show is the frame."
– Grand. G. Chesterton

~~~

"If you search for the laws of harmony, yous volition find noesis."
– Ancient Egyptian Proverb

~~~

Proverbs and Quotes

~~~

"Whatever else fine art is good for, its principal effectiveness lies in propagating more fine art."
– Leo Steinberg

~~~

"Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration."
– Ancient Egyptian Proverb

~~~

"A visit to a museum is a search for dazzler, truth, and meaning in our lives. Get to museums every bit often as you lot can."
— Maira Kalman

~~~

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor …
museums, liketheatres and libraries, are a means to freedom."
– Wendy Beckett

~~~

"A people without knowledge of their past history,
origin, and civilization are like a tree without roots."
-Marcus Garvey

~~~

"The almost effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their ain understanding of their history."
– George Orwell

~~~

"The simply way to empathize painting is to go and expect at it.
And if out of a million visitors, in that location is fifty-fifty one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums."
– Pierre-Auguste Renoir

~~~

"The all-time and shortest road towards knowledge of truth is Nature."
– Ancient Egyptian Maxim

~~~

"If Picasso drips, I baste."
– Arshile Gorky

~~~

"You tin't do a painting without a baste."
– Andy Warhol

~~~

"For every joy, there is a cost to exist paid."
– Ancient Egyptian Proverb

~~~

"Day by day, what you lot choose, what you think, and what you do is who you go."
– Heraclitus

~~~

"I beloved the name of award, more than than I fear expiry."
– Julius Caesar

~~~

"Everything flows and cypher abides, everything gives way, and nothing stays stock-still."
– Heraclitus

~~~

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for information technology's non the same river and he'south not the same human being."
– Heraclitus

~~~

"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
– Edmund Burke

~~~

"If you really want to seriously recollect about life, and therefore take painting very seriously… and have seriously the joys that information technology can bring to 1, then you lot desire to go to museums. You desire to study the greats of the by."
– Nelson Shanks

~~~

"History is written by the victors."
– Walter Benjamin

~~~

"History doesn't echo itself, but it does rhyme."
– Mark Twain

~~~

"Art has always had every bit its exam in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves. People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in the church building."
– Bill Viola

~~~

 "Man: a being in search of meaning."
– Plato

~~~

"To be ignorant of what occurred earlier you were built-in is to remain ever a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless information technology is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

~~~

"Just because you practice non take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
– Pericles

~~~

"If you must pause the police force, do information technology to seize ability: in all other cases detect it."
– Julius Caesar

~~~

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."
– Pericles

~~~

"The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really but the flake that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short scroll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche."
– Alain de Botton

~~~

"A museum has to renew its collection to exist live, simply that does non hateful nosotros give on important old works."
– David Rockefeller

~~~

"If history were taught in the course of stories, it would never exist forgotten."
– Rudyard Kipling

~~~

"When in a museum, walk slowly only keep walking."
– Gertrude Stein

~~~

"The body of water is zilch only a library of all the tears in history."
– Lemony Snicket

~~~

"The further backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to encounter."
– Winston Southward. Churchill

~~~

"The center is the beginning circle; the horizon which it forms is the second, and throughout nature, this primary figure is repeated without end."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

~~~

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
– Socrates

~~~

"Men, in general, are quick to believe that which they wish to be truthful."
–Julius Caesar

~~~

"He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature."
–Socrates

~~~

Proverbs and Quotes

~~~

"I am ever set up to learn, although I do not e'er like being taught."
– Winston Churchill

~~~

"The viewer is persuaded past his senses that he occupies the eye of the globe around him—a world he changes at will as he moves through it."
– Rudolf Arnheim

~~~

"I am prepared to encounter my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of coming together me is another matter."
– Winston Churchill

~~~

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
– Socrates

~~~

"History, similar love, is then apt to environment her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary effulgence."
– James Fenimore Cooper

~~~

"Preservation of one'southward own culture does not require contempt or boldness for other cultures."
– Cesar Chavez

~~~

"The greatest wealth is to alive content with petty."
– Plato

~~~

"For about a yr now, I have been unable to [do] anything in my painting but scrape off, pile on and then remove once more. In this process, I don't actually reveal what was beneath."
– Gerhard Richter

~~~

"Courage is knowing what not to fearfulness."
– Plato

~~~

"A line on its own has almost get a work of fine art."
– Theo van Doesburg

~~~

"Necessity is the mother of invention."
– Plato

~~~

"Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil."

– Plato

~~~

"Human history becomes more than and more than a race between education and catastrophe."

– H.G. Wells

~~~

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."

– Aldous Huxley

~~~

"At the museum, a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days past Tibetan monks.
The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They but begin once more."
– Susan Griffin

~~~

"I'm a closet nerd. I honey to written report history and visit museums."
– Shakira

~~~

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
– George Bernard Shaw

~~~

"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
– Marcus Aurelius

~~~

"When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and nosotros'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became."
– Jill Scott

~~~

"I dearest doing normal things …  I also beloved to get to fine art and history museums."
– Christina Aguilera

~~~

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
– Winston S. Churchill

~~~

"We used to build temples, and museums are most as close as secular club dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life."
– Alain De Botton

~~~

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over the self."
– Aristotle

~~~

"Lines connect or divide, measure, marking, or just extend themselves. In their more unruly moments, they coil and curve, even snarl and knot. They can also scribble or write."
– Nancy Foote

~~~

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
– Aristotle

~~~

Proverbs and Quotes

~~~

"It is the marking of an educated homo to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
– Aristotle

~~~

"Since the painter has become an thespian, the spectator…must go a connoisseur of the gradations between the automatic, the spontaneous, the evoked."
– Harold Rosenberg

~~~

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is non an act, but a habit."
– Aristotle

~~~

"I honey going to museums, especially the MET, because there's always room for discovery… It's a dandy gem box."
– Aerin Lauder

~~~

"A painting in a museum probably hears more than foolish remarks than anything else in the world."
– Edmond De Goncourt

~~~

"I feel that the peachy challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
– Alain de Botton

~~~

"I go to a museum and see a painting someone living in the past has made, and I'1000 completely blown away. The nature of human beings has not changed. Everyone wants to avoid suffering and look for love."
– Dana Levin

~~~

"Give me a museum, and I'll make full information technology."
– Pablo Picasso

~~~

"History is a prepare of lies agreed upon."
– Napoléon Bonaparte

~~~

"The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to meet 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 repast."
– Gilbert Thou. Chesterton

~~~

"Living is similar trigger-happy through a museum. Not until later on do y'all really offset absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you tin't take information technology in all at in one case."
– Audrey Hepburn

~~~

"Success is not final, failure is non fatal: it is the courage to go along that counts."
– Winston Churchill

~~~

"A museum is a place where 1 should lose one'due south caput."
– Renzo Piano

~~~

"Each man must expect to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: information technology is something molded."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~~~

 "Small-scale opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
– Demosthenes

~~~

Proverbs and Quotes

~~~

"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the feel of being live."
– Joseph Campbell

~~~

"I do not paint a portrait to wait like the discipline,
rather does the person grow to await similar his portrait."
– Salvador Dali

~~~

"The best museums and museum exhibits almost science or engineering requite you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but peradventure I could practice something here, likewise."
– Paul Allen

~~~

"Nobody ever flunked a science museum."
– Frank Oppenheimer

~~~

 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to human activity responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
– Plato

~~~

"If people don't like Marxism, they should arraign the British Museum."
Mikhail Gorbachev

~~~

"Study the by if you would define the future."
– Confucius

~~~

"Museums should exist places where y'all raise questions, not simply show stuff."
– William Thorsell

~~~

"Attitude is a trivial thing that makes a big deviation."
– Winston Churchill

~~~

"I of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been conned long enough, we tend to reject whatsoever evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The baffle has captured u.s.a.. It's only too painful to admit, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. One time you give a charlatan power over you, you well-nigh never get it back."
– Carl Sagan

~~~

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
– Leo Tolstoy

~~~

 "One thing I know that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom."
– Socrates

~~~

"Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and human from all sides."
– Assyrian Maxim

~~~

"Continuous attempt – non strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential."
– Winston Churchill

~~~

Proverbs and Quotes

~~~

A Tour of Quotes and Proverbs

  • Quotes about Art
  • Quotes about History
  • Quotes about Libraries
  • Quotes about Museums
  • Quotes about State of war
  • Napoleon Quotes
  • Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
  • Charles Dickens Quotes
  • Sherlock Holmes Quotes
  • Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
  • Proverbs and Quotes
  • American Proverbs and Quotes
  • French Proverbs and Quotes
  • Italian Proverbs and Quotes
  • Greek Proverbs and Quotes
  • German Proverbs and Quotes
  • Austrian Proverbs and Quotes
  • Irish gaelic Quotes Proverbs and Sayings
  • Dutch Proverbs and Quotes
  • Spanish Proverbs and Quotes
  • Belgium Proverbs and Quotes
  • Serbian Proverbs and Quotes
  • Smooth Proverbs and Quotes
  • Swiss Proverbs and Quotes
  • Czech Proverbs and Quotes
  • Norwegian Proverbs and Quotes
  • English language Proverbs and Quotes
  • Scottish Proverbs and Quotes
  • Welsh Proverbs and Quotes
  • Irish Proverbs and Quotes
  • Russian Proverbs and Quotes
  • Chinese Proverbs and Quotes
  • Australian Proverbs and Quotes
  • Australian Aboriginal Sayings and Quotes
  • Mexican Proverbs & Quotes
  • Colombian Proverbs & Quotes
  • Brazilian Proverbs & Quotes
  • Argentine Proverbs & Quotes
  • Chilean Proverbs & Quotes

Proverbs and Quotes

Popular this Week

Sponsor your Favorite Page

SEARCH