Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Museums, I love museums.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

History takes time... History makes memory.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

For more than 1000 years our spiritual traditions and common values have been nurtured and begotten here. Today, as we restore the value of patriotism, historical memory and cultural tradition, we are seeking firmer bonds with Mount Athos.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I go to museums all the time.

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

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

My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

I like to make history.

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.

Literature is the memory of humanity.