Museums Quotes

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

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

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my shower. Sometimes they’re waiting patiently in glass cases in museums.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.

I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

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

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me of a heat shield.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

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

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.

If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.