Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums. — Maneet Chauhan Copy Share Image
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The folks who want to build this mosque, who are really radical Islamists, who want to triumphfully prove they can build a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in… — Ryan Merchant Copy Share Image
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
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