Museums Quotes · Page 12

I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a…

— Camille Henrot

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are…

— Casey Stengel

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

— Andres Iniesta

Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and…

— Bill Gates

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

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

— Pat Conroy

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

— Hans Haacke

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born…

— Damien Hirst

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with…

— Susan Sontag

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a…

— Ansel Adams

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

— George Lois

“Brant had said my embellishing constituted a disservice to history and its players. But I believed the opposite. Marooning them on the…

— Leah Hager Cohen

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 don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Adam Hochschild

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

— Gertrude Stein

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

— Nicholas Lea

If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the…

— Arielle Ford

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they…

— W. Eugene Smith

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable…

— Jerry Saltz

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

— Donald McCaig

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

— Margaret Mead

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play…

— Brad Pitt