“We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.” — Mandy Hale 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
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
Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of… — Kent Hovind Copy Share Image
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too… — John Banville Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
it is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of… — Santha Rama Rau Copy Share Image
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones. — Donald McCaig Copy Share Image
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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