Quotes of: Museums Keyword

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

Raf Simons

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

Brad Pitt

I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.

Beverly Cleary

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

Elizabeth Perkins

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Claes Oldenburg

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

Barry McGee

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

Hamish Bowles

I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.

Leslie Bibb

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

Pierre Loti

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Yogi Berra

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

Damien Hirst

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Frank Gehry

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

Alison Jackson

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.

Bar Paly

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

David Blaine

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

David Rockefeller

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

John Hawkes

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

Jerry Saltz

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison