Museum Quotes

322 Museum quotes by 268 unique authors

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions. — Jeffrey Deitch
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. — Jeffrey Deitch
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their… — Katherine Dunham
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to… — Alex Grey
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. — Melinda Gates
I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The… — Olafur Eliasson
I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall. — Warren Zevon
The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to… — Daniel Hannan
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the… — Ferguson Jenkins
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting… — John Hodgman
Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum. — Mark Twain
When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you… — Georges St-Pierre
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not… — Ansel Adams
Nobody ever flunked a science museum — Frank Oppenheimer
Every human encounter is the external embodiment of an attraction between two magnetic fields. The encounter comes suddenly, unexpectedly. It is a moment of truth.… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful… — William Makepeace Thackeray
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you… — William J. Clinton
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking. — Gertrude Stein
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered… — Jean Cocteau
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of… — Eduardo Galeano
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality... — Damien Hirst
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study… — Ad Reinhardt
This exhibition brings the students' conversations about photography into the Museum space, ... The images in Reclaiming Beautiful present the teenagers' new awareness about how… — Francisco de Quevedo
The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant… — Alexander McQueen
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is… — Susan Griffin

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