Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4… — Deborah Moggach
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security. — Thomas Mars
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. — William Eggleston
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe… — Duane Michals
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. — Larry Ellison
Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the… — Colleen Hanabusa
The whole experience co-curating the Biennial was a learning experience. The Suburban and The Poor Farm are not institutions. They are not by design, organized… — Michelle Grabner
I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit… — Rick Bayless
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is… — Neil MacGregor
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is… — Neil MacGregor
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free… — Neil MacGregor
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not… — Virginia Postrel
Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the… — Bill Dedman
Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his… — Robert Gottlieb
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of… — Thomas P. Campbell
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New… — Delphine Arnault
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum… — Whitfield Diffie
Marlins Park is what I call my office in Miami, because I work for the Venezuelan Museum of Baseball and Hall of Fame. My job… — Juan Pablo Galavis
Te Papa Museum is brilliant. — Richard Armitage
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday… — Orhan Pamuk
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there. — John Gokongwei
How does one measure the success of a museum? — J. Paul Getty
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at… — Christo

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