Museum Quotes · Page 3

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

— Eduardo Chillida

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

— Yogi Berra

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

— George Gaylord Simpson

“In museums I always enjoy stopping at the Saint Jeromes.”

— Italo Calvino

Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.

— Jes Macallan

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

— Jonathan Anderson

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

— George Santayana

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

— Andres Iniesta

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as…

— Maira Kalman

I actually got a chance to see the museum and it's incredible, ... The way they built it and the shapes and…

— Dr Dre

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

— Elvis Mitchell

I concern myself with timelessness all the time. If you're not swinging for museum quality, your mind is not in the right…

— Rodney Crowell

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have…

— Gerhard Richter

I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Takes a special kind to go another kind to stay here … Nowhere do such patriots so embrace the leaving of the place”

— Kate Tough

I was very excited when the Holburne Museum proposed a show of my ceramics from the 80s and early 90s as it…

— Grayson Perry

Every government secretary of state or minister should jolly well go to the theatre, go to a concert, go to an art…

— Philip Pullman

Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,'…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini…

— Robert Gottlieb

I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I…

— Tino Sehgal

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums…

— John Hodgman

We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some…

— Warren MacKenzie

If we went to a museum, I know everybody won't like the same painting. But as an artist, as long as there's…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim,…

— Delphine Arnault

“There's a lot of pointing. A festival of pointing and at very close range to other people's eyes, given the width of…

— Sloane Crosley

At the end of that two weeks Bernard [Leach] asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln,…

— Warren MacKenzie

“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

“The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of…

— Jean Lorrain

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

— Claes Oldenburg

Every week someone rings me up wanting to open a new Messner museum, but I'm not interested.

— Reinhold Messner

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

“You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

— Anonymous

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

— Prince Philip

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

— Joni Mitchell

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

— Mark Stevens

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

— Richard Meier

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

— Fred D'Aguiar

“i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut”

— Rupi Kaur