Quotes About Museum

I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

My favourite museum is the British Museum.

The Bruce Lee Action Museum will represent action in the sense that the word is not just used to mean action in the martial arts or films. It is really meant to be a much broader definition as far as taking action, my father's belief of self-actualization.

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.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,' the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons.

The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.

I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

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

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

I want to go to the 9/11 Memorial. I heard that's amazing and crazy to look at, an amazing museum. So I haven't done that. I'd like to do that.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

Dr. Margaret Oda, a true trailblazer in education, served as Honolulu school district superintendent and was the driving force behind the middle-school concept and the first chairwoman of the Japanese American National Museum.

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.