Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family… — Mata Amritanandamayi
DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum. — Tony Stewart
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
Art should be created for life, not for the museum — Jean Nouvel
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is… — Michael Steinhardt
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories. — Peter S. Beagle
The biggest looters are the British Museum. — Lowkey
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances. — Gary Saul Morson
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go… — John Green
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it… — Mary Ellen Mark
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know… — George Mikes
I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or… — Jean Pigozzi
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library… — Phylicia Rashad
I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would… — Anna Sui
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee
You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying… — Dave Barry
The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked… — Gerhard Richter
The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even… — Gerhard Richter
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and… — Dylan McDermott
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a… — Evan Davis
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and… — James Spader
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer
I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is… — Leslie Bibb

Who Wrote These Museum Quotes

268 authors contributed a total of 322 Museum Quotes, led by these top contributors: