A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
I guess it started in London, the night our dad blew up the British museum. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum. — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving. — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school… — Colleen Hanabusa 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
... 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
Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image