Museums Quotes

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

— Gertrude Stein

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

— Andy Warhol

I love going to museums.

— Connie Nielsen

A theater without beer is just a museum

— Bertolt Brecht

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

— Bill McKibben

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

— Violet Trefusis

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

— Sonia Rykiel

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

— Glenn Gould

“who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings? ”

— Michael Stipe

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

— Renzo Piano

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

— Ralph Caplan

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

— Robert Barry

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

— Robert Smithson

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

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Janet Flanner

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

— Seth

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

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

— Ai Weiwei

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're…

— Richard Meier

Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy,…

— Rob Lowe

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

— Owen Wilson

... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after…

— Gabriel Orozco

New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will…

— Goh Chok Tong

Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school…

— Colleen Hanabusa

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old…

— Jim Dale

Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were…

— Warren MacKenzie

I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many…

— Ai Weiwei

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so…

— Dale Chihuly

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that…

— Simon Hoggart

People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to…

— Sandra Cisneros

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,…

— Alice Walker

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away…

— Jean Cocteau

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,…

— James Keller

Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is…

— Adam Hochschild

In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively…

— Warren MacKenzie

So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs…

— Paul Rand

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

— Brad Pitt