Museum Quotes
322 quotes by 268 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
— Michael Heizer
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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
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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
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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
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I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.
— Pierre Loti
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Don’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
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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
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Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean…
— Sarah Kay
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
— Robert T. Bakker
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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
Who Wrote These Museum Quotes
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