As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

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There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

quote by Dean Martin
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A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

quote by David Rockefeller
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

quote by Salvador Dali
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Turin

inviting
navigable
accessible

Via Lattea
Valle di Susa
Valle di Chesone

Baroque capital
stretch of River Po
snow-crusted Alps

The Shroud
Galleria Sabauda
Egyptian Museum

House of Savoy
Palazza Carignano
Balon flea market

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poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

quote by Christina Aguilera
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Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

quote by Robert Hewison
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More Submissive

She held my hand as we climbed

The magnificent staircase of the art museum,

it was a summer holiday and we were slightly tipsy

From afternoon wine in the flower garden.

She touched my lips and spoke,

'Nothing more for you to drink,

I don't want the curator to dismiss you as a drunk

Who would fail to appreciate this sacred place

With landscapes of Delacroix and Renoir'

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poem by Uriah Hamilton
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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

quote by Robert Smithson
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I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France. A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed!

classic quote by Victor Hugo
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Pagani’s, November 8

Suddenly discovering in the eyes of the very beautiful
Normande cocotte
The eyes of the very learned British Museum assistant.

poem by Ezra Pound
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Museum of Women Pilots

They were ladies with a task at hand
In an area unknown to most
Usually when it comes to flying
The women would only host

But this museum is dedicated to
The women who learned to fly
If you knew of their determination
You never would ask why

We all know about Amelia Earhart
But she was only one of many
Who knew in the core of their hearts
They had to make flying their journey

We honor them every single one
In a place where they have special slots
In history forever and ever
The museum of women pilots!

poem by Marilyn Lott
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My inspiration comes from the numerous travelling I do with Geoffrey Nejman. Also my eyes are wide open when I am walking through forests and gardens. I love nature. Also I am a fan of Art and I visit lots of exhibitions and museums.

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Beat Museum

I just went to the Beat Museum
These poets are obviously dead,
Sardonic, original, witty men,
Not fit for more than what they did.

I guess it's good they left something behind,
After all, most of the world needs some kind of sign,
How could we calculate variable pain,
Raising its head through motorcycle chain.

Strip joints surround the Beat Museum,
You get porno dust on your shoes as you arrive,
You can buy original copies of whatever they wrote,
And see a car, that looks like the car, Kerouac used to drive.

poem by Richard Jarboe
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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

quote by Isaac Mizrahi
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I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

quote by Mariel Hemingway
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If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.

quote by Jock Sturges
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The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

quote by David Rockefeller
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Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

quote by Conan O'Brien
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