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Museum Quotes by Martin Filler
- What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial…
- 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…
- 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…
- From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view…
- Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up…
- The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is…
More Museum Quotes
- I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and… — Elayne Boosler
- Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it. — Eli Broad
- I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs
- Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.'… — Seth Shostak
- In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient… — Jimmy Carter
- "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. — Renzo Piano
- 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
- Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson
- The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. — Prince Philip