Museums Quotes

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

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.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.

it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

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.

Nobody ever flunked a science museum

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.

Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

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.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

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.

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

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

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

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.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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.

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

Museums, I love museums.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.