Museums Quotes

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I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New… — Delphine Arnault
A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public… — Robert Reich
I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend… — Buzz Aldrin
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images… — Orhan Pamuk
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there. — John Gokongwei
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a… — Hideo Kojima
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets… — Chelsea Cain
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in… — George Segal
How does one measure the success of a museum? — J. Paul Getty
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at… — Christo
Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend… — Simon Hoggart
I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate… — Eli Broad
American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial. — Pontus Hulten
MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment.… — Ambrose Bierce
Do not fall in love with people like me,we will take you to museums and parks and monuments and kiss you in every beautiful place… — Ream
Museums are the cemeteries of the arts — Alphonse De Lamartine
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none… — Robert Hughes
Sad, but one day our kids will have to visit museums to see what a lady looks like. So if you find one, I beg… — Andre 3000
I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave. — Jarod Kintz
Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates...But in the… — Robert Owen

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