“Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.” — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera Copy Share Image
The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished… — May Kendall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to… — Kehinde Wiley 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
Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a… — Kerry James Marshall 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
The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single… — Ernie Colon Copy Share Image
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community,… — Floyd Norman Copy Share Image
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
