Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every… — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Our spending priorities are clearly in question when we are increasing bond indebtedness on pet projects such as museums while our infrastructure… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes,… — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image
Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of… — Jules Breton Copy Share Image
No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write… — Sarah Copy Share Image
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
![“What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.” quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/506/pierre-auguste-renoir-7064_bits_what-i-like-so-much-about-corot-is-that_1016895.png)
![“[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.” quote by Elsa Maxwell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b4c/elsa-maxwell-18439_book_on-the-british-museum-it-was-manifestly_2281607.jpg)
![“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions…” quote by Joan Fontcuberta](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0ed/joan-fontcuberta-39488_archives_photography-mirrored-the-nineteenth-cent_2622277.jpg)
![“We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/844/vladimir-putin-261_academy_we-are-going-to-set-up-a-branch-of-the-s_1919810.jpg)
