Top 20 Quotes About Children's Museums
#1. Fuck history. Fuck love. Fuck fate. Fuck happiness. Fuck mind-blowing sex. Fuck it all.
Penelope Ward
#2. We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.
Julia Cameron
#3. Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.
Paul Goldberger
#4. People interested in museums as real educational environments, parents interested in their children's education, and people seeking to find themselves in a positive way could all benefit from reading this book. by Associate Dean Engineering, Michigan State University
Ronald Rosenberg
#5. Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him
this leads to spiritual petrification.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#6. Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to the places of election, to overthrow their tyrants, and to substitute men who would be disposed to avenge the violated majesty of the people?
Alexander Hamilton
#7. If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering
naked and alone
Anne Fadiman
#8. The ignorance we're ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.
Leah Hager Cohen
#9. It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
Euripides
#10. I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
Buzz Aldrin
#11. It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.
Anne Hathaway
#12. My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir
#13. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
Paul Rudnick
#14. Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers
#15. He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.
Epictetus
#16. You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path.
Jay Woodman
#17. I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist ... ..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.
Jean Dubuffet
#18. Your temperature's normal, though I'd say it's the only thing about you that is.
Anthony Horowitz
#19. He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
Danabelle Gutierrez
