Museums Quotes · Page 6

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

— Peter Zumthor

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

— Jack Levine

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

— Sylvester Stallone

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

— Rudolf Bing

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

— Amy Sherald

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

— Anonymous

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

— Alan King

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

— Derek Landy

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest…

— Luis Gonzalez

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol…

— Roy Cooper

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art…

— Paul Virilio

Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.

— Maneet Chauhan

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were…

— Jean Pigozzi

I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the…

— Leonard Nimoy

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a…

— Elsa Maxwell

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes,…

— Bill Plympton

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema…

— Lav Diaz

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I…

— Jo Nesbo

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have…

— Larry Ellison

I think we still do have a PR problem in the sense that these institutions portray themselves quite often as a museum…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be…

— Umberto Boccioni

The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good…

— Jerry Saltz

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the…

— Martin Filler

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your…

— Anna Brackett

The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage…

— John Baldessari

I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away…

— Jean Cocteau

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work…

— Jan Phillips

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others,…

— Alice Walker

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

— Mason Cooley

“As cultural politics change, museums change with them.”

— Sharon Waxman

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

— Ai Weiwei

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

— Tadao Ando

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

— Wade Guyton

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance.

— Matthew Carter

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

— Robert T. Bakker

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

— Diane Ackerman