“I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.” IfsPastEducationLandStudentsTaughtTerribleQuietTwentiesMuseumsMute Author:Eduardo Galeano
“I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.” PersonsTogetherRoomsGroupsObjectsEmotionalQuietStrangerStaringMuseumsInanimate Objects Author:Hiro Murai
“Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.” PeopleMindLooksArtMightGroupsQuietRealmsMuseumsSquaresNoisy Author:Jerry Saltz
“I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.” MenWayWritingKindCitiesExistenceForeverQuietPerceptionMuseumsLeisureVisionariesHermits Author:Allen Ginsberg
“Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.” IfsCitiesQuietBreathsMuseumsDublin Author:Derek Landy