Quotes About Museum

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.

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.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

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

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind.

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.

Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.

The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we must have Watson too.

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

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