Museums Quotes · Page 5

perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems…

— Barack Obama

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn…

— Kehinde Wiley

If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to…

— A. A. Gill

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise…

— Marshall McLuhan

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

— Arnold Palmer

I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

— Ambrose Bierce

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of…

— Richard Fortey

We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the…

— Samuel Sharpe

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

— Melinda Gates

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the…

— Richie Sambora

I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll…

— Kehinde Wiley

If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles…

— Werner Herzog

A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.

— Paul Virilio

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of…

— Dave Barry

Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of…

— William Rees-Mogg

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I…

— Alison Jackson

Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were…

— Warren MacKenzie

I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a…

— Wayne White

Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her…

— Judith Jamison

If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to…

— Michael Steinhardt

In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it…

— Kehinde Wiley

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right…

— John Green

If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two…

— William J. Clinton

Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and…

— Daniel Silva