Museums Quotes - Page 27

• A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

  Eoin Colfer

  Technology, Cds, Quaint

  Eoin Colfer (2005). “Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Book #3”, Miramax

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• The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.

  Ai Weiwei

  Government, Years, Cities

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.

  Kiki Smith

  Art, School, Majority

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

  Ai Weiwei

  Past, Thinking, China

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• ~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~

  Heidi Klum

  Kids, Parenting, Elephants

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• You don't see Los Angeles erecting a museum dedicated to the birth place of the Crips and the Bloods and the Mexican Mafia, with a special guided bus tour highlighting the rise of the crack trade, yet you can hop on a bus in Chicago tomorrow to see the famous locales of murders. I have to imagine there's some wonderful academic book on the sociology of this out there.

  Tod Goldberg

  Book, Blood, Birth Place

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll become closer to this index that I'm referring to. Because what you want is this card that relates to that book. What you want is this human that relates to this world, rather than having this art school society scattering that point of view somewhere in between. It becomes diffused. And that level of clarity, I think, was gained at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Book, School

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

  Kehinde Wiley

  People, Brooklyn, Saws

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Desire, Would Be

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Couple, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

  Evan Davis

  Heart, Government, Doors

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• It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.

  Alex Grey

  School, Boston, Years

  "LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey's Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives". Interview with David Ian Miller, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2008.

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• I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.

  George Mikes

  Funny, War, Japan

  George Mikes (1970). “The land of the rising yen: Japan”, Harvard Common Press

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• Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

  Sigmar Polke

  Fall, Years, Pieces

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• I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

  Jean Pigozzi

  New York, Paris, Bills

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• The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Broken, Church, Saint

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• If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Play, Magic, Library

  "Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.

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• An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Utterance, Anthology, Quotations

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• SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.

  Andre Benjamin

  Kids, One Day, Looks

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• If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Believe, Men, Twenties

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• I like rap music. But bragging about being rich to poor people is really offensive. I want to hear a rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich.

  John Waters

  Song, Rap, People

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• What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Running, Art, Individual

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• If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Beautiful, Years, Greek

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