The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE. — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we… — Grace Gummer Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art,… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
What I love about IMAX is that, when you're in an IMAX theater, in a museum, science center or aquarium, it's eight… — Greg MacGillivray Copy Share Image
I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
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