The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if… — Leslie Bibb Copy Share Image
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,… — John Green Copy Share Image
In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I… — Mariel Hemingway 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
An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with… — Steve Prefontaine Copy Share Image
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the… — Mark Frauenfelder 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
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
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
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
![“I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something…” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f5/liza-campbell-17930_architecture_i-did-make-several-trips-to-the-very-won_1436393.jpg)
![“I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-began-working-within-the-streets-of-ha_2894302.jpg)
