Museums Quotes · Page 6

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

— Rainn Wilson

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the…

— Rosanne Cash

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

— Norton Simon

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

— Wade Guyton

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making…

— Marc Jacobs

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In…

— Jerry Saltz

People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to…

— Sandra Cisneros

A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot…

— Ragnar Kjartansson

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice…

— Evelyn Waugh

Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who…

— Christopher Titus

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he…

— Mark Twain

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

— Sonia Rykiel

I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle…

— Bill Maher

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea…

— Thomas Heatherwick

I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for…

— Kelly Link

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

— Ai Weiwei

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and…

— Jarod Kintz

“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities…

— Sharon Waxman

Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single…

— Warren MacKenzie

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons…

— Albert C. Barnes

Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen…

— Sapphire

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're…

— Richard Meier

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

— John Hodgman

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the…

— Anonymous

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

— Robert Smithson