Museums Quotes · Page 7

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

— Richard Meier

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

— Max Tegmark

“Go to museums; realize other things have history too.”

— Victoria Morgan

Prose is a museum, where all the old weapons of poetry are kept

— T. E. Hulme

Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

— Julie Gonzalo

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

— Hamish Bowles

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

— Muhammad Yunus

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

— Prince Philip

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

— Ai Weiwei

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the…

— Alain de Botton

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams,…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my…

— Jock Sturges

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works…

— Xavier Becerra

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a…

— Philip Guston

“She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.”

— E.M. Forster

I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

— Owen Wilson

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

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,…

— John Green

In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments…

— Stephane Mallarme

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,…

— Jerry Saltz

“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or…

— Orhan Pamuk

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his…

— Jerry Saltz

When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I…

— Olivier Theyskens

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean…

— Rick Steves

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a…

— Richard Saul Wurman

Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne,…

— Clemence Poesy

I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would…

— Audrey Niffenegger

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

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is…

— Ai Weiwei

Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who…

— Christopher Titus

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

— John Hodgman

“This is why I paint," he says. "To get black men into museums.”

— Jennifer Clement

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

— John Archibald Wheeler

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

— Edmond de Goncourt

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

— Mason Cooley

SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.

— Andre Benjamin

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

— Ai Weiwei