Top 814 Museum Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

An art book is a museum without walls.

The biggest looters are the British Museum.

I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.

Nobody ever flunked a science museum

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.

You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum.

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'

I've put live performance in a lot of spaces. Part of what I want to do is take over the takeover. Another way that someone put it is, you climb over the fence and you cut a hole in it, and let everyone else in. That's kind of what this is. The museum is a repository of great works, but there is certain work that no one ever calls great. This is an insistence on directing their attention to other stuff that's great, that never gets to be in a museum.

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 format. I was trying to find a site where something could happen over a long period of time - something that could slowly transform itself and the place as it went. And I was also trying to stand out of the art-world system. Strangely enough, I stumbled on vacant museum.

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

I don't want music to be a museum.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a major museum, it must be important, what is going on here? I stayed until the museum closed. His Screen Test films are some of my favorite works made this century, but you need to give them back the time they took to be made.

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition to continue in a massive way.

Pele should go back to the museum.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

A theater without beer is just a museum

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.