Art Quote by Mario Botta Download Open image “A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.” — Mario Botta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Museum People Place Religion Spiritual
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that… — Marvin L. Cohen Copy Share Image
A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They… — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
