Museums Quotes

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Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not… — Yoko Ono
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. — Arnold Palmer
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — Abigail Van Buren
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. — Pablo Picasso
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is… — Brad Pitt
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead… — Steve Prefontaine
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to… — Dan Rather
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works. — David Rockefeller
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and… — David Rockefeller
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity,… — David Rockefeller
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person,… — David Rockefeller
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse… — Jerry Saltz
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. — Jerry Saltz
'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave… — Jerry Saltz
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,… — Jerry Saltz
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting… — Jerry Saltz
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life… — Jerry Saltz
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the… — Jerry Saltz
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial… — Jerry Saltz

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