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
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
“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
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to… — Robert Hewison 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
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
“I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
With Rodham, for instance, it has to work on an emotional level. It has to work on a character level. If it's… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Some people have criticized the United States and the United States military for guarding oil fields and not guarding the Iraqi National… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar,… — Michael Graves 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
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.… — Orson Scott Card 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
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic. — Miles Davis 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
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
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
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre,… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not… — Elizabeth Perkins Copy Share Image
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
