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
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 Copy Share Image
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I… — George Segal Copy Share Image
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies and as soon as… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline...… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to,… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.” — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress. — Brie Bella Copy Share Image
If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the… — Arielle Ford Copy Share Image
I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
“We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy,… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image