Culture Quote by Robert Bly

I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And…

— Martin Puryear

“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them to art…

— Jimmy Carter

[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.…

— Warren MacKenzie

What I think about when I frequent the Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan [Museum of Art], and I look at these artifacts that…

— Nick Cave

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other.…

— Tino Sehgal

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

— Ray Bradbury

“who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings? ”

— Michael Stipe

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were…

— Kerry James Marshall

I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on…

— Walton Goggins

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

— Gerhard Richter

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

— Alice Temperley