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Museum Director Inspirational Quotes (54)

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I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.
Thelma Golden
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For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Neil MacGregor
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The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose, to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
Neil MacGregor
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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
Richard Owen
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Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.
Richard Owen
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What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
Betty Sue Flowers
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In a time where the world is becoming personalized, when the mobile phone, the burger, everything has its own personal identity, how should we perceive ourselves and how should we perceive others?
Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
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The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
Thomas P. Campbell
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Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
Thomas Hoving
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Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting.
Hilla von Rebay
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
Richard Owen
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It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Mary Archer
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Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
Neil MacGregor
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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
Richard Owen
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With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
Thomas Hoving
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Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.
Thomas S. Buechner
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Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.
Neil MacGregor
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European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
Thomas P. Campbell
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I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
Mary Archer
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I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
Mary Archer
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In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.
Neil MacGregor
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The only enemy of art is taste.
Thomas Hoving
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From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.
Neil MacGregor
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I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.
Mary Archer
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