Looks Quote by Robert Smithson Download Open image “Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.” — Robert Smithson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Looks Museums Tombs
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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle. — Jake Barton 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 museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in… — Pablo Picasso 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
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“It’s like the end of the day where you feel nothing has been achieved and you’re in a hurry to get the day over… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art . — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking causes stress. The real cause of all problems lie in our… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?" Max inquired. "He's a warlock," said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If your thighs look like the hood of a white Toyota minivan after a hailstorm, you aren't juicy. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image