Museums Quotes

Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

A theater without beer is just a museum

We are all museums of fear.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds to a museum, where it belonged.

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.

It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

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

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy.

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of someone's daily life.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.