Museums Quotes · Page 16

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in…

— Hans Haacke

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a…

— Philip Guston

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

— Tania Bruguera

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

— Bill McKibben

At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a…

— Pierre Soulages

~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and…

— Heidi Klum

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting…

— Jerry Saltz

I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in…

— Ryan Merchant

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I…

— George Segal

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

— Allan Kozinn

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

— Lowkey

We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people.

— Pope Francis

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in…

— Ashley Jensen

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

— Paul Rand

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes…

— Carl Jung

Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so…

— Billy Crystal

I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis…

— Liza Campbell

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to…

— Jerry Saltz

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

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting…

— Gary Saul Morson

I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration,…

— Zac Posen

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it…

— Donald Trump

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something…

— Banksy