Museums Quotes
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.
I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
I love the international feeling In New Yokk. Different foods. Different people. There's everything here. Museums, theatre, there's so much to do I feel guilty about not doing too many things.
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.
Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all the old weapons of poetry kept.
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.
I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.
Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.
Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.
As cultural politics change, museums change with them.
In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experience of looking at art becomes a form of consumption.
We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.
Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.