Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the… — Theophilus London Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Museums that aren't perfect are the ones that I love. Museums that aren't overdesigned. I always like to visit the strange, odd… — Reed Krakoff Copy Share Image
“Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
It is a question in that case of breaking up one piece of art, and whether that piece of art can be… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum… — David Amram Copy Share Image
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are… — Casey Stengel Copy Share Image
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
