Museums Quotes
Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.
But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.
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.
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important
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.
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.
There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
