Museum Quotes - page 2

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

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

Phillip Guston

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.'

Mark Twain

In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch-phosphorus-flour-bottles of water and alcohol-and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

Stéphane Mallarmé

I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum.

Rick Riordan

I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit-it makes me sound like a total geek. [That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis. ].

Rick Riordan

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Antonio Tabucchi

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

Katherine Dunham

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

Katherine Dunham

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. (Conan O'Brien)

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

Andrew O'Hagan

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.

David Amram

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

David Hasselhoff

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Ferguson Jenkins

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.

Isaac Mizrahi

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.

Issey Miyake

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Jean Nouvel

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

Jeffrey Deitch

I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.

Jessica Lucas

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress. (Joan Smalls)

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.

Jock Sturges

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

Christo

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

Martin Filler

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

Michael Steinhardt

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