Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But… — Isaac Mizrahi Copy Share Image
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