Muse Quotes - Page 3

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.

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

Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

Once you start being a muse, you cannot stop being a muse.

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.

That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Encourage innocent amusement.

I keep myself amused and others confused

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

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

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.