Museums Quotes - Page 31

• If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

  Adam Carolla

  Walking, Ifs

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  People, Certain, Worn

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

  Theaster Gates

  Art, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products of this world have never been widely seen because the artists are often exploring things that are not already coded in general consciousness. It's not that photographers don't want to be famous, it's just that very few of the views from the edges of culture make the mainstream. Ansel Adams was an exception.

  Mark Klett

  Photography, Art, Rocks

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• I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

  Delphine Arnault

  Art, New York, Passion

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass when I was 14 I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

  Amy Heckerling

  Art, Weekend, Movie Love

  Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2012.

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• We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Loss, Careers

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• I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.

  Lisa Loeb

  Cities, Trying, Target

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• Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Kids, Scotland

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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• The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

  Theaster Gates

  Artist, Ideas, People

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

  Clemence Poesy

  Beautiful, Latin, Philosophy

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• The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

  Adam Savage

  Cutting, Feet, Space

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• I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Age, Facts, Postmodern

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Skeletons, Brain

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• Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive.

  Eric Drooker

  Artist, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  Barry McGee

  Graffiti, Embrace, Stills

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• I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.

  Lav Diaz

  People, Festivals, Academia

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Clients, Environment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Scene, Theater, Concerts

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Order, Interesting

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• New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place.. Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Change, Sports, Art

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• Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

  Mark Twain

  Earth, Christianity, Century

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.460, Courier Corporation

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Mean, Intelligent, Hiking

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Issues, Holocaust

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