We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It was actually a museum. At least that's what the sign said. It read, "The Lerthon Coldson Civil Rights Museum." It made… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general. — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. — Richard Stengel Copy Share Image
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut. — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
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