Art Quote by Sharon Waxman Download Open image ““As cultural politics change, museums change with them.”” — Sharon Waxman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Change Museums Politics
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
“If you are not open to the change, you will be no different than a statue in the museum!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.” — Roger Caras 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
We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson 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
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle. — Jake Barton 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
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
“As once-colonized nations seek to stand on their own, the countries once denuded of their past seek to assert their independent identities through the… — Sharon Waxman Copy Share Image
“I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how… — Sharon Waxman 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
