The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.
Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.
As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art?
Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.
It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.
Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of Natural History, and I was blown away by the dinosaurs.
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.
I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
