Museums Quote by William Thorsell Download Open image “Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.” — William Thorsell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Museums Raises Raises questions Should Shows Stuff
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at." — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives. — Abbi Jacobson 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
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
You don't just find an empty museum and say, "I should do something here." I was looking for another kind of venue or exhibition… — Pierre Huyghe Copy Share Image
It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to… — William Thorsell Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental… — Christo Copy Share Image
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a… — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
