Museums Quotes · Page 4

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

— Eduardo Chillida

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

— Timothy Keller

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

— Robert T. Bakker

Egypt really is one of the worlds greatest open-air museums.

— Josh Gates

Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.

— William Thorsell

A Museum of fetishes would give special attention to the history of underwear.

— Mason Cooley

If you're gonna do museums, some of the best in the world are in D.C.

— Sean Doolittle

Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums.…

— Seth

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

— Janet Flanner

I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for…

— Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize…

— Lisa Randall

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other…

— Frank Gehry

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially…

— Richard Meier

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ...…

— Eva Le Gallienne

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

— Roger Caras

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I…

— Mariel Hemingway

“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask…

— Sharon Waxman

I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky… And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle…

— Bill Maher

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually…

— Carolyn Kizer

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries…

— Hakim Bey

An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis…

— Liza Campbell

Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the…

— Mark Frauenfelder

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry,…

— Miguel de Unamuno

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it…

— Donald Judd

I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las…

— Tod Goldberg

Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be…

— Umberto Boccioni

The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage…

— John Baldessari

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your…

— Anna Brackett

Gas Lights - Without Oil, Tallow, Wicks or Smoke. It is not necessary to invite attention to the gas lights by which…

— Rembrandt Peale

I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit…

— Errol Flynn

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

— Eli Broad

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

— John Dos Passos

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

— Andy Warhol

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

— Susan Sontag

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.

— Ann Landers

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

— Mason Cooley

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

— Jesse Ventura

I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.

— Jonathan Anderson