Museums Quotes
480 quotes by 383 authors
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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
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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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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
— Robert Genn
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I'm not sure what [my latest works are] about but I'm convinced they're the best things I've done and I'm going to the world's best…
— Mark Kostabi
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into…
— Arnold Palmer
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I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here…
— Errol Flynn
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I went to the beach a couple of times in New York City. Tough summer out there, but I was pretty excited. I found what…
— David Letterman
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They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
— Joni Mitchell
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I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload…
— Ernie Colon
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In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus,…
— Burton Silverman
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What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want…
— Thomas P. Campbell
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Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is…
— Thomas Heatherwick
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Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other…
— Georg Baselitz
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In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and…
— Georg Baselitz
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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.
— Eduardo Chillida
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I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
— Theophilus London
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Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum…
— George Steiner
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Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work…
— Frank Gehry
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and…
— Salvador Dali
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