Museum Quotes · Page 4

A museum is a reminder to us of how stupid we are.

— Vikrant Parsai

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

— Lowkey

You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum.

— Tanya Saracho

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

— Tadao Ando

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

— Wade Guyton

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

— Matthew Carter

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

— Diane Ackerman

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

— Banksy

Bernard's [Leach] drawings delineated every little accent on the pot, every subtle curve and change of angle and proportion and all.

— Warren MacKenzie

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour…

— John Gokongwei

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

“I spent my 53rd birthday at the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health.”

— Steven Magee

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

— Dr Dre

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

— Kate Tough

When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

— Kellie Martin

Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of…

— Juan Pablo Galavis

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties…

— Neil MacGregor

I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say,…

— Aimee Mullins

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were…

— Jean Pigozzi

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a…

— Fred Tomaselli

The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not…

— Michelle Grabner

I once rented the Georgian town house that Jane Austen lived in down by the Holburne Museum - so I lived in…

— Lucy Worsley

My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend…

— Prue Leith

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

— Warren MacKenzie

“He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He…

— Anthony Powell

“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase…

— Donna Tartt

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's…

— Jerry Saltz

“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 museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a…

— Marvin L. Cohen

“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

“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

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

— Robert Smithson

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

— Mack Wilberg

“Drag the kids to the art museum in the morning,”

— Mindy Klasky

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

— Norton Simon

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

— Rupi Kaur

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

— Robert Genn

My room isn t dirty, I just have everything on display like a museum.

— Young Siddiq Prince