Museums Quotes - Page 14

• The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I'm telling a story that's set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it's easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That's one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, "Shut up about the Shire's museums! Isn't the world supposed to be in peril or something?"

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Jobs, Writing, Firsts

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.

  Marc Jacobs

  Inspiration, Creative, Soul

  "Marc Jacobs to leave Louis Vuitton". Interview with Murray Healy, www.dazeddigital.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new city to explore. You take a tram, visit the museums and operas and cafes.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Cities, People, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

  John Hodgman

  Past, Amusing, Relics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it's like food. It is necessary for my personal growth as a person to grow as an artist, I go basically every week to three or four things. But it's real life that inspires me - when I meet somebody, when I see something.

  Blanca Li

  Real, Inspiration, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

  Zaha Hadid

  London, Gallery, Crowded

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• Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

  Frank Gehry

  Years, People, Ten

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• I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Hiking, Play, Energy

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• [In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica [tin glazed earthenware], and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Simple, Egypt, Japan

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which was brutal and killed hundreds of thousands of people - it was the Soviet Union's Vietnam. I'm just saying that now, in these new wars, whole countries have slipped into mayhem - the women have just been pushed back into their burqas - and not by choice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Doctors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

  David Galenson

  Names, Frost, Bishops

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• I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

  Nan Goldin

  Cities, Firsts, Slides

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.

  Nan Goldin

  Clothes, Hair, Years

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

  Nan Goldin

  Art, New York, Mean

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

  Theodora Goss

  Art, Reading, Inspire

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to have a room full of school children explore Picasso's approach to making art.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Children, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

  Parker Posey

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.

  Richard Meier

  Art, Winning, Doors

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

  Richard Meier

  Art, Views, Social

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

  Paul Virilio

  Art, Cinema, Television

  Source: ctheory.net

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• There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, School

  Source: www.tribalartasia.com

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• Some of the '80s movies I did are sort of museum pieces. St. Elmo's Fire is great as a sort of kitschy, "Oh, my god, I can't believe we wore that" type of movie.

  Rob Lowe

  Believe, Fire, Elmo

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Paris is a beautiful city to walk around in. And, you know, all the obvious things: I like the museums, I like the theater, I like the dance. And it's manageable. The food's good. I know a lot of interesting people here. I lived in Boston for 50 years or more. Wherever I am, I'm usually holed up most of the time in the editing room, and so, when I leave the editing room, even if I just take a walk, it's gorgeous. And I walk everywhere. I'm a victim of the seduction of Paris.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Beautiful, Editing, Boston

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Writing, Cities, Impact

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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