Museums Quotes - Page 18

• I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

  Rick Riordan

  Garden, Hunting, Air

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Pieces, Were Meant To Be

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• I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring the painting for some time, and then realized that in addition to feeling moved by the beauty of the painting, I felt a little jealous of the painter.

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Taken, Jealous

  Source: newwest.net

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• Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

  Van Day Truex

  Inspiration, Ideas, Design

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• I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.

  Jim DeMint

  Home, Needs, Looks

  "The Crisis in a Nutshell: The Zones and Ceilings of National Debt" by Samantha Hening, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

  Eli Broad

  Memphis, Stuff, Share

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• Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Exhibitions, Pay

  "Broad Brush Strokes: Q &A With Eli Broad". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2008.

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• The biggest looters are the British Museum.

  Lowkey

  British, British Museum

  Song: Dear England

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• I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

  Eli Broad

  Party, Three, Hours

  "The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking".

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• If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  Tim Gunn

  Art, New York, Destination

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• I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Art, America

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• London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

  David Attenborough

  Library, World, Want

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.

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• In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Heart, Losing, Compulsion

  "Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Skulls, Ornaments

  Arthur Conan DOYLE (2009). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.310, Omnibus

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• Ben remembered reading about curators in "Wonderstruck", and thought about what id meant to curate your own life, as his dad had done here. What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go in your own cabinet? How would Ben curate his own life? And then, thinking about his museum box, and his house, and his books, and the secret room, he realized he'd already begun doing it. Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders.

  Brian Selznick

  Dad, Reading, Book

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• You see where the fighter jets are so old that they can't get parts anymore. They have to go to plane - airplane graveyards and museums to get parts for our fighter jets that we're currently using. They don't make the parts. And you have other countries that have brand new equipment. And in some cases, we sell them the equipment. The whole thing is ridiculous.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Airplane, Ridiculous

  Source: time.com

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• When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to think about professors, where I didn't have to think about much of anything other than my own practice.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Practice, Type

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.

  Kevin Hearne

  Glands, Curator, Ifs

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.410, Del Rey

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• I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Home, Doors

  Source: newwest.net

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• 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.

  Uta Barth

  Art, Giving, Important

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  Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

  Banksy

  Art, Bus Stops, Interesting

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Successful, Thinking, Light

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• 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.

  Julio Cortazar

  Mean, Thinking, Looks

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• Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

  Sjon

  Iceland, Library, Festivals

  Source: wwd.com

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• Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Paris

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.161, Macmillan

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