Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.
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.
After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?
This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as ...
...love is deep attention, deep compassion...
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.
The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.
Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the Museums.
