Pearse Museum Quotes

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. ~ Lesley Pearse

Charity couldn't meet her mother's eyes. ~ Lesley Pearse

Hate was a far easier emotion to deal with sometimes. It burned fiercely and eventually died. Love stayed. ~ Lesley Pearse

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath. ~ Padraig Pearse

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them. ~ James Pearse Connelly

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace ~ Patrick Pearse

Just to give the audience a breath of fresh air is important. ~ James Pearse Connelly

Beautiful and rare Aurora,
In the heavens thou art their Flora ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

We are spirits clad in veils. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons. ~ Lesley Pearse

You're a doormat. You always consider everyone before yourself, and until you learn to be a bit more selfish people will always wipe their feet on you. ~ Lesley Pearse

He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who changed the course of Irish history. ~ Patrick Pearse

I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want to hear. ~ Lesley Pearse

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance ... ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations. ~ Patrick Pearse

What is love?" Noah said with a wry smile. "If it is having someone on you mind so continuously that you can't eat, sleep or think about anything else, then yes, I love her ~ Lesley Pearse

So how do you know when the boy's perfect for you?' Dulcie asked
Betty gave her a tender look. 'You'll just know. That sounds vague, I know, but it's true. ~ Lesley Pearse

I'm 36, and sometimes I'm working so hard I don't realize how much I've gotten done. ~ James Pearse Connelly

I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things. ~ James Pearse Connelly

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real. ~ James Pearse Connelly

Now, tomorrow you got to put on a happy face, not for me, nor May, or anyone else, just for yourself. 'Cause that's a magic trick I learned a long time ago, if you look like you're happy, you soon get to be. ~ Lesley Pearse

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. ~ John Hodgman

A seed of a plot drops into my head, I plant it with a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it through, and once the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown. ~ Lesley Pearse

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession ... to create a living religion in landscape painting. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah. ~ James Pearse Connelly

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

My approach is to 100 percent get the concept and the visual right. Get the client to love the space. Once they love the space, everything's possible. ~ James Pearse Connelly

A museum is a place where nothing was lost, just rediscovered… ~ Nanette L. Avery

I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest stage in Universal, standing proud there among all the other stages. I think, "That is so amazing that I did this." ~ James Pearse Connelly

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. ~ Patrick Pearse

I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization. ~ Susan Vreeland

You take for granted the details that make something look real. It can still look fabulous, but if you add a light switch, a vent, or the notion of air conditioning, it can look real. ~ James Pearse Connelly

These big Silicon Valley companies that are popping up are projecting growth skyrocketing in a few years. So they need a space they can grow into. Not so much in New York. Super conservative, super small. ~ James Pearse Connelly

To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately. ~ James Pearse Connelly

I knew one boy who passed through several schools a dunce and a laughing-stock; the National Board and the Intermediate Board had sat in judgment upon him and had damned him as a failure before men and angels. Yet a friend and fellow-worker of mine discovered that he was gifted with a wondrous sympathy for nature, that he loved and understood the ways of plants, that he had a strange minuteness and subtlety of observation - that, in short, he was the sort of boy likely to become an accomplished botanist. ~ Padraic Pearse

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

The true collector's only home is his own museum. ~ Orhan Pamuk

some prominent aviation museums across India including the HAL Museum in Bangalore, the Indian Air Force Museum in Delhi and the Naval Aviation Museum in Goa which are storehouses of information ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally. ~ Patrick Pearse

If you look around anywhere, layers are an important part of, not just the story and the concept, but the world you're in. If you just turn around and look at your office door, there's a door, and there's something behind it. ~ James Pearse Connelly

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life
In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,
To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: What if the dream come true? ~ Padraig Pearse

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands. ~ Neil MacGregor

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us ~ Patrick Pearse

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else? ~ Mark Stevens

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring. ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch

The gods are made of marble
Deep inside a museum
A quadruped monster beckons me to approach
("Outcries") ~ Helene Baronne D'Oettingen

In New York, it's a little bit more formal, a little bit more decorated, and there's a real appreciation for traditional style. Out here, it's casual, fresh, new, and almost humble. ~ James Pearse Connelly

In an art museum, you shall realise how banal and how ordinary the life outside! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works. ~ David Rockefeller

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. ~ Robert Smithson

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. ~ William Eggleston

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs. ~ Andres Iniesta

Slavery happened. That flag stands for segregation. We have monuments to Civil War generals and slave owners, as well as preserved plantations. But we have only one slavery museum, and that was built by a private citizen. We have no national or federal slavery museum. There is no government-funded slavery museum. A proposal to put one in Virginia came through in 2001 and went unfunded and failed. Another one in Richmond reached a similar fate. This is absolutely shameful. ~ Trae Crowder

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie. ~ David Hasselhoff

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast. ~ Andrew O'Hagan

So next time you go to a museum, keep your eyes open; you never know what you will see. ~ Isaac Du Toit

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. ~ Jenny Holzer

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ~ Rudolf Bing

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily. ~ Elsa Peretti

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. ~ Pierre Loti

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. ~ Barry McGee

This world is a museum. In a museum you have to see and know; you can eat and drink but you cannot take anything out of it. Do not get attached. Enjoy everything, but if you take anything away from it, you will have to come back to the 'museum' (this world). ~ Dada Bhagwan

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. ~ Jock Sturges

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington. ~ Newt Gingrich

If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me. ~ Vijay Kumar

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community. ~ Jeff Koons

Brenda had been the landlady of the Pied Horse for twenty years and, as Jack, the village grocer, came in every single day, she knew just how cantankerous, stubborn and mean-spirited he could be. It was a common knowledge that his older daughter, Emily, had left home after a beating and had never been home since. His wife, Mary, was a sweet-natured woman who was well liked by everyone, but she was a bag of nerves and too weak to stand up to such a bully. ~ Lesley Pearse

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness ... it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated ... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds ... ~ Patrick Pearse

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. ~ Norton Simon

Art should be created for life, not for the museum. ~ Jean Nouvel

To visit a museum is fine,
to be a museum piece is terrible!

- Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ~ Nazim Hikmet

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped. ~ Kate Williams

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. ~ Michael Dirda

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ~ David Rockefeller

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat. ~ Virginia Postrel

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it. ~ David Chipperfield

I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century. ~ Susanna Kearsley

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events. ~ Theophilus London

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. ~ Larry Ellison

The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth. ~ Ken Ham

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. ~ Eli Broad

[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding the formation of a just idea of the beauty and interest of each specimen... Nothing detracts so much from the enjoyment ... from a visit to a museum as the overcrowding of the specimens exhibited. ~ William Henry Flower

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate. ~ David Rockefeller

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

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man. ~ J.B. Priestley

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. ~ Edmond De Goncourt

My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through. ~ Larry Ellison

I don't even know of a room that doesn't have a flat-screen TV in it. These are things that just come in environments these days. And if you were going to walk into a space, where did you come from? Was there a bathroom around the corner? These are things that are authentic, and that's what makes successful television. It's not pre-produced garbage. It's believability and connection. The environment has to tell that story. ~ James Pearse Connelly

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. ~ Gary Oldman

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously. ~ Quentin Blake

Now you see only the mystery of this great sorrow; then you shall see how the threatening enemy was swept away in the wild night of fear and grief.
Now you look only at the loss; then you shall see how it struck at the evil that had begun to rivet its fetters upon you.
Now you shrink from the howling winds and muttering thunders; then you shall see how they beat back the waters of destruction, and opened up your way to the goodly land of promise. ~ Mark Guy Pearse

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. ~ Renzo Piano

Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security. ~ Thomas Mars

My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. ~ Robert T. Bakker

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen. ~ Jerry Saltz

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people. ~ Tino Sehgal

. . . my underlying, not-so-hidden agenda is to help enhance and enrich the encounter of the museum-goer with enduring objects, in a time when we all seem to be assailed by random noise and flickering images. ~ Esther Green Bierbaum

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. ~ Jerry Saltz