Museum Quotes

322 quotes by 268 authors

Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the… — Olafur Eliasson
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s… — Helmut Newton
Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone… — David LaChapelle
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for… — C S Forester
Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum… — Paul Goldberger
The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
They are works of art that can be considered works of artÂ but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. — Michael Heizer
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of… — Dale Chihuly
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate… — Jock Sturges
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic… — Richard Fortey
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti
Donâ€™t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead… — Jerry Saltz
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can. — Maira Kalman
Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: â€œBut in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean… — Sarah Kay
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South… — Junichiro Koizumi
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself… — Julia Margaret Cameron
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists… — James Keller
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… — Martin Filler
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. — Robert T. Bakker
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me,… — Jack Handey

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