Museums Quotes - Page 2

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Art, World, Ridiculous

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• Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Thinking, Space

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• A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

  David Rockefeller

  Mean, Giving, Important

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

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• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  Gary Oldman

  Reality, Decay, Tvs

  "Playboy Interview: Gary Oldman". Interview with David Hochman, June 25, 2014.

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• I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Loyalty, Debt, Best Place

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• When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Juicy, Littles

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• 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.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Art, Men, Thinking

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  When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Growing Up, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

  John Burroughs

  Funeral, Feelings, Literature

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies”

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• But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

  Dan Rather

  Opportunity, Memorial, Needs

  "A History Lesson" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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• If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

  Nelson Shanks

  Past, Thinking, Joy

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• Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Mistake, Lying

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• I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

  Steven Wright

  Arms, Comedy, Statues

  "Steven Wright Special". Comedy, 1985.

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• Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? 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

  Crazy, Hands, Order

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• Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important

  Issey Miyake

  Thinking, Clothes, People

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• The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

  David Rockefeller

  Art, Believe, Roles

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

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• It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

  George Santayana

  Football, Art, Kindness

  George Santayana (1968). “Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy”

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• Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

  Peter De Vries

  Art, Food, Restaurants

  Peter De Vries (1982). “Madder Music”, Viking Press

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• The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Artist, Surface

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• What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Gun

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An art book is a museum without walls.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Wall, Book

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• I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opponents, Election, Found

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• One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Eight, Wyoming, Goal

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• I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Fun, Favors

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