In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum.… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer.… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in… — Sjon Copy Share Image
The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing… — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose… — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Museum of Modern Art doesn't have anything to do with what I do. Probably has made some differences in my sales, I… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Copy Share Image
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited.… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas -… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I had a very Italian house - the "plastic furniture you couldn't sit on" house. Did anybody have the museum house? For… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
The man in the shop peered disapprovingly at Evie through the glass. She pumped her arms and legs up and down in… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I want to create a space that moves people. It doesn't matter if it is a house, or a museum, or whatever.… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
“From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning -- that's quite a record time for a visitor to… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
![“Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.” quote by Sjon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3fe/sjon-22692_denmark_katie-paterson-introduced-the-project-fu_1879081.jpg)
![“When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.” quote by Nan Goldin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6e9/nan-goldin-6289_art_when-i-put-my-big-retrospective-together_3126864.png)
![“Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were kids. I took classes there. She was the one that, when we'd go to the store and I would have a pack of eight pastels, she'd say, "No, get the 24-pack." She was always encouraging me…” quote by Jeff Vespa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/684/jeff-vespa-25539_art_over-the-years-she-my-mother-always-enco_2598059.jpg)
![“From seven in the morning until half past one the next morning -- that's quite a record time for a visitor to stay at a museum," [Henry Ford] continued. "It proves that you may be even more interested in mechanics than I am. And you almost have to be a fanatic to compete with me. That's certainly…” quote by Diego Rivera](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/522/diego-rivera-19217_diego-rivera_from-seven-in-the-morning-until-half-pas_1620157.jpg)
