And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
~I don't always have a lot of energy, but my kids almost always revitalize me. Of course like any working mom, sometimes… — Katie Couric Copy Share Image
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old… — Jim Dale 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
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
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
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners. — Allan Kozinn Copy Share Image
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut. — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
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