Museum Quotes · Page 7

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

— Pierre Loti

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I look back and can't believe it sometimes. I have to go to the Derby Museum to see what I really accomplished.

— Bob Baffert

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

— Fred D'Aguiar

“Each of us is a museum that opens for business the moment we’re born, with memory the sole curator.”

— Kate Bolick

I became the European amateur champion in Liverpool back in 2008. I visited the Beatles museum, and after the final, I went…

— Oleksandr Usyk

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese…

— Larry Ellison

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something…

— Kelly Wearstler

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go…

— Susan Stroman

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were…

— Jean Pigozzi

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a…

— Fred Tomaselli

I once rented the Georgian town house that Jane Austen lived in down by the Holburne Museum - so I lived in…

— Lucy Worsley

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not…

— Michelle Grabner

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of…

— Juan Pablo Galavis

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties…

— Neil MacGregor

“He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He…

— Anthony Powell

“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase…

— Donna Tartt

“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's…

— Jerry Saltz

“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

— Chance The Rapper

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think,…

— Judith Durham

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

— Albert C. Barnes

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have…

— Siri Hustvedt

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

— Norman Davies

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in…

— William Eggleston

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

— Robert T. Bakker

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

— Jeff Koons

“[...] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went…

— John Waters

I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.

— Derren Brown

Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

— Clemantine Wamariya

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

— Tania Bruguera

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for…

— Kerry James Marshall

I do try to get to a new part of London every week, visit a museum once or twice a week if…

— Felipe Anderson

I was pleased Melissa Leo won Best Supporting Actress for 'The Fighter' at the Oscars. I hope that her outfits are maintained…

— Frank Skinner

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part…

— Daryl Hall

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

— Sylvester Stallone

My room is Not Dirty !! I just have everything on display ; it's like having my own Museum...

— Green Monk