Museums Quotes

480 quotes by 383 authors

The biggest looters are the British Museum. — Lowkey
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something… — Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed… — Karl Marx
Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on… — Jim Gaffigan
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
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years. — Sigmar Polke
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
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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

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