Quotes of: Museums Keyword

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

Jeffrey Deitch

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Andy Warhol

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

Bill Dedman

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Hans Haacke

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, ha...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Cambiando de postura en el sillín, Adam pensó que la forma en que su humilde vida seguía los moldes de la literatura tenía algo como de metempsicosis. ¿O quizá -se preguntó, hurgándose la nariz- era consecuencia de estudiar tan detenidamente ...

The British Museum Is Falling Down

The ring which you are holding, my friend, is identical to that one. I had it cut according to the model of the king's ring, and damascened in Spain. The original is still in the Escorial; it would have been pleasant to steal it, for I easily acquire...

Monsieur De Phocas

Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past...

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

Sara Sheridan

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

Dasha Zhukova

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

Thelma Golden

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.

Virginia Postrel

in the corner of the painting of success the signature is blurred

Hourglass Museum

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Rudolf Bing

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Willard Van Orman Quine

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Theophilus London

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Henry James

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Dean Martin

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

Daryl Hall

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Arnold Palmer