Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams,… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works… — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums.… — Seth Copy Share Image
In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner 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
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the… — Mark Frauenfelder Copy Share Image
I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
On the third Friday of each month, I go to the Andy Griffith Museum. I get to meet hundreds of fans who… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where… — Candida Hofer Copy Share Image
When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
“If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so… — Warren MacKenzie 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
There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for… — Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss Copy Share Image
Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers. — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough 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 great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.” — Richard Fortey 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
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
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
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
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
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
![“I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something…” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/liza-campbell-17930_architecture_i-did-make-several-trips-to-the-very-won_1436393.jpg)
![“When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was…” quote by I. M. Pei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/i-m-pei-21076_accepted_when-i-got-the-opportunity-to-do-the-new_284075.jpg)
![“[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/warren-mackenzie-4654_ancient_in-the-field-museum-of-natural-history-w_183538.jpg)
![“Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.” quote by Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/jerry-saltz-1712_acronyms_maybe-the-museum-of-arts-and-design-need_1863601.png)
