The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that… — Donald Sultan Copy Share Image
It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff I've done is inspired by the location. Usually my works are pretty site-specific. There are a lot… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished.… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen… — Sapphire Copy Share Image
Where do you get your ideas? people ask. Sometimes they’re at the bottoms of cups of tea. Sometimes they’re lurking in my… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you… — Caitlyn Siehl Copy Share Image
You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum.… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
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