Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they… — Desiree Akhavan Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing… — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too… — John Banville Copy Share Image
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings. — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
