Museums Quotes - Page 19

• We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

  Alain de Botton

  Secular Society, Ideas, Ruins

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• To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

  Jan Phillips

  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

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• So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Art, Simple

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Lonely, Moving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Cities, Shopping, Dallas

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• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Wall, Book

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.

  Mark Teixeira

  New York, Son, Favorite Places

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• A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Art, Breathing, Argument

  "Why public spaces must allow private thoughts" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

  Colleen Hanabusa

  School, Drs, Firsts

  "Our Commitment to Women’s Success Continues" by Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Illustration, Ideas

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Government, Theatre, Tourists

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

  Milo

  Interesting, Furniture, Very Interesting

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• My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.

  Jessica Lucas

  Crazy, Party, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

  Joan Smalls

  Beautiful, Art, Honor

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• I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on THE FLINTSTONES!

  Bill Maher

  Men, Years, Eight

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

  Susan Sontag

  Memories, Visuals, Western

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I would want to keep that in a little glass sphere, perhaps in the corner of my living room, lit up. But, I think that's an extremely expensive rig. The costumes were crazy expensive, beyond anything they could afford to give you, to take away. They're going to be in a museum of some kind, on display until they get the go for Tron: Legacy 2. It would have been awesome to keep, though. I don't think there was anything that they could afford to let go. I probably would have been arrested.

  James Frain

  Letting Go, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Art, New York, Directors

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.

  Michael Graves

  Coffee, Issues, Design

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• You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  Eve Babitz

  Hurt, Art, Mean

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• I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  Eve Babitz

  Art, Games, Body

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• I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

  Richard Fortey

  Believe, Judging, Quality

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• Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who are exactly like us. And it doesn't matter. White. Black. Red. Yellow. Purple, uh oh, the purple people, are the worst. Man. All prejudiced and birth marky. But, we've got to learn to get past our differences. I learned that at the museum of tolerance. After my dad beat the crap out of a guy over a parking spot.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Past, Men

  "Titus / Too Damn Good". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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