Museums Quotes - Page 12

• I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

  Philip Guston

  Men, Painting, Should

  "Abstract Expressionism". Book by David Anfam, p. 207, 1990.

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• You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile opinion. It makes no difference to you or the world what you may think of any work of art. That is not the question; the point is how it affects you. The picture is the judge of your capacity, not you of its excellence; the world has long ago passed its judgment upon it, and now it is for the work to estimate you.

  Anna Brackett

  Art, Thinking, Long Ago

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• A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Hands, Want

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7617, Delphi Classics

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• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  V. S. Pritchett

  School, Eye, Games

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 95), 1980.

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• My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind.

  Martine Franck

  Book, Advice, Mind

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• European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Cutting, Government, Pressure

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• Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family and within society. Simply transferring the world's nuclear weapons to a museum will not in itself bring about world peace. The nuclear weapons of the mind must first be eliminated.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Religious, War, Mind

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Living In Harmony”, p.31, M A Center

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• Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Flower, Writing, Garden

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• It's a response from Donald Trump [to the Pope]. It says, "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS..." Their primary thing... You've seen what they've done all over the Middle East. Their primary goal is to get to the Vatican. That would be their ultimate trophy. They want to do what they won't to all of these magnificence artifacts and all of the beautiful museums that they've totally destroyed all over the Middle East, right?

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Isis, Ifs And

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My husband and I like cities. We like to go to other cities. Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London. We're not big beach people. We're the type that get those books out and go to every museum. We are those people.

  Julie Halston

  Beach, Husband, Book

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and banter I had with my friends I remember the most.

  Rory McIlroy

  Fun, Educational, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been (because it shifted) - I find it very clarifying (not confusing) to be reminded that everything we feel like we've really pinned down is transient, arbitrary, and marks the site of a painful if not violent negotiation, one that may not have ended.

  Laura Mullen

  Texas, Confusing, Borders

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.

  Roel Reine

  School, Sea, Stories

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• You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

  Jessa Crispin

  Art, New York, London

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives.

  Robert Cecil Martin

  Children, Educational, Unique

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• Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Rigor, Given

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• Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Modern, Beijing

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that there is so much going on in this city. I like walking around or taking the subway, thinking about all the history here, looking at the architecture and all the people; of course, the museums. It's tough to find a better place to live.

  Diego Klattenhoff

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  "Actor Diego Klattenhoff: On Knowing When to be Hard on Yourself and When to Let it Go". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Important, I Can

  Source: fashioninterviews.blogspot.com

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• I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.

  Betty Lynn

  Memories, Kissing, Emotional

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• On the third Friday of each month, I go to the Andy Griffith Museum. I get to meet hundreds of fans who stand in long lines for hours to meet me. Some months I don't feel too good and I think maybe I won't go, but then when I go and get to be there with so many wonderful people it always lifts my spirits and makes me feel better. I wouldn't stand in line for hours to meet me, but I'm so glad my fans do.

  Betty Lynn

  Friday, Feel Better, Thinking

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• People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.

  Garry Winogrand

  Believe, People, Purpose

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• The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.

  Garry Winogrand

  Hype, Evil, Crowds

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

  Kehinde Wiley

  New York, Artist, Yale

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

  Donald Trump

  Flags, Confederate, Confederate Flag

  Source: www.npr.org

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