Museums Quotes · Page 9

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

— Henry James

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

— Robert T. Bakker

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance.

— Matthew Carter

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

— Diane Ackerman

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a…

— Jerry Saltz

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

— Robert Smithson

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other…

— Steven Wright

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,…

— David Attenborough

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

— Theodora Goss

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds…

— Patti Smith

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I…

— Rachelle Lefevre

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

— Seth

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in…

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of…

— Arne Glimcher

What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which…

— Noam Chomsky

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,…

— J. G. Ballard

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century…

— Adam Savage

I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished…

— May Kendall

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some…

— Zaha Hadid

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right…

— John Green

Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental…

— Kenneth Clark

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a…

— Anna Wintour

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to…

— Yann Martel

For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,…

— Mark Steyn

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a…

— Margaret Mead

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that…

— Pat Conroy

The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before…

— Gerhard Richter

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example,…

— Anonymous

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

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

— Kiki Smith

I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the…

— Rory McIlroy

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

— Richard Misrach

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

— Rabindranath Tagore

American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.

— Pontus Hulten

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is…

— Steve Martin

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big…

— Kiki Smith

There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check…

— Troy Polamalu