Museums Quotes · Page 34

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries,…

— Philip Freelon

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not…

— Elizabeth Perkins

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to…

— Eric Drooker

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go…

— Susan Stroman

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order…

— D. H. Lawrence

“This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding…

— Orhan Pamuk

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:…

— Robert Reich

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an…

— Eric Drooker

It's a response from Donald Trump [to the Pope]. It says, "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS..." Their primary…

— Donald Trump

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

— Peter S. Beagle

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

— Adam Carolla

Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a…

— Kerry James Marshall

There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would…

— Kehinde Wiley

“The gods are made of marble Deep inside a museum A quadruped monster beckons me to approach ("Outcries")”

— Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign…

— David Nicholls

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example,…

— Anonymous

Pele should go back to the museum.

— Diego Maradona

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community,…

— Floyd Norman

I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las…

— Tod Goldberg

When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they…

— Nathan Sawaya

When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there…

— Nan Goldin

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the…

— Theophilus London

The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet,…

— Julia Margaret Cameron

Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products…

— Mark Klett