Museums Quotes - Page 26

• I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

  Ashley Jensen

  Smell, Church, Florence

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• As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

  Banksy

  Art, I Can, Art Is

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• It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love, Fighting, Mind

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.236, Macmillan

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• I’m curious about things that people aren’t supposed to see—so, for example, I liked going to the British Museum, but I would like it better if I could go into all the offices and storage rooms, I want to look in all the drawers and—discover stuff. And I want to know about people. I mean, I know it’s probably kind of rude but I want to know why you have all these boxes and what’s in them and why all your windows are papered over and how long it’s been that way and how do you feel when you wash things and why don’t you do something about it?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mean, Long, People

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• I've wanted you from the moment I first saw you in the museum. Before that. I wanted every part of you from the first time I felt you, your presence. I want you in the sky, and against the earth. I want to kiss you again, I want to touch you, I want to feel you in my arms and I want to hear you gasping my name when I'm inside you. I want all that, and I want it badly. Every time I look at you, I want it. So you're going to have to become used to that, Rue. It won't change." (Christoff to Rue)

  Shana Abe

  Kissing, Names, Sky

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• I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

  Jim Butcher

  Couple, Fields, Used

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.525, Penguin

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• Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Falling In Love, Art, Book

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• Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

  Hakim Bey

  Change, Art, Truth

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.39, Autonomedia

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• We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

  Nick Cave

  Struggle, Artist, People

  Interview with Tori Bush, dailyserving.com. December 4, 2015.

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• In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of Yale, to get outside of art-speak, and to really think about art as a material practice that has very useful and pragmatic material precedent.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, Yale

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

  Arielle Ford

  Art, Shining, Spotlight

  "Nobody's Perfect: How to Reclaim the Joy in Your Relationship". Interview with Laurie Sue Brockway, www.everydayhealth.com. February 16, 2012.

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• I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

  Zaha Hadid

  Pedestal, Furniture, Reason

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• I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Expression, Creative, Really Inspiring

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• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Spiritual, Hero, Intelligent

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Wall, Men

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Years, China

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so extraordinary, and I didn't care if they were true or not after a while. ... I don't know if he really got high with Humphrey Bogart or not. It didn't matter because he was painting these fantastic pictures.

  Billy Crystal

  Stories, Care, Matter

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

  Robert Barry

  Trying, Firsts, Bigs

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• Just like in the art museum, and notions of beauty and pleasure, if the hero is always a white guy with a squared jaw or pretty woman with big breasts, then kids start thinking that's how it's supposed to be. Part of the problem was that black comic book artists were making super heroes with the same pattern as the white super heroes. When you read a lot of those comics, the black super heroes don't seem to have anything to do.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Book, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

  Susan Sontag

  Encounters, World, Copies

  Source: ctheory.net

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• When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.

  Howard Gardner

  Teacher, Children, Play

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.

  Ai Weiwei

  Crazy, Thinking, Should Have

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• [Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

  Ai Weiwei

  World, Department

  Source: www.believermag.com

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