Artist Quote by Nâzım Hikmet Download Open image ““To visit a museum is fine, to be a museum piece is terrible! - Gioconda and Si-Ya-U ”” — Nâzım Hikmet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Exhibits Fine Museum Museum Fine Museum Piece Museums Piece Terrible Terrible Gioconda
“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.” — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
“I think museums are dead boring. I don't like most of the pictures on their walls. With modern pieces you never know if it's… — Jutta Profijt Copy Share Image
“This is what great masterpieces must feel like on museum walls—like sighing, like climbing out of their rigidly stretched frames, and falling, boneless, into… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
“You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits?” — Ron Lizzi Copy Share Image
“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.” — S. Kelley Harrell Copy Share Image
“The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.” — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“Don’t go to art galleries or museums with me. Ever. (Sorry Dan.) And…” — Ken Mooney Copy Share Image
“Separation isn’t time or distance it’s the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords” — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“You Are My Drunkenness You are my drunkenness... I did not sober up, as if I can do that; I don't want to anyway.… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“The life-loving, smart, good-hearted dead don't want forty days of mourning or say, "After me the deluge!" Leaving behind some helpful things - a… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it” — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true. - In the Snowy Night… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“MY WOMAN My woman came with me as far as Brest, she got off the train and stayed on the platform, she grew smaller… — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever thought of living unconsciously like bears, sniffing the earth, close to pears and the mossy dark, far from human voices and… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but in people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Grieve for the… — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp 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
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
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead 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
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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
