Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
“The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
The DEEP SEA has more history in it than all the museums of the world-combined. — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance). — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My position on how to address the Confederate flag is clear. In Florida, we acted, moving the flag from the state grounds… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Prose is in fact the museum where the dead images of verse are preserved. In 'Notes', prose is 'a museum where all… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The… — Michelangelo Pistoletto Copy Share Image
Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do… — James Nares Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums, — Banksy Copy Share Image
Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum. — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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