Museums Quotes

480 quotes by 383 authors

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere â€“ on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have… — John Cotton
The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures. — John Dos Passos
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for me it is about two lines… — Daniel Libeskind
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts — Albert C. Barnes
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore
Our universities and museums are respected around the country. — Jane Byrne
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in… — Fred Reed
Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience. — Scotty Cameron
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in… — Henri Rabaud
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day. — Peggy Guggenheim
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums… — Pablo Picasso
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois
If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless. — Nancy Lancaster
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. — Bill Gates
I love museums. But I don't want to live in one. — Tim Cook
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room… — Fernand Leger
I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artistâ€¦..I had lost all interest in the art shown… — Jean Dubuffet

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