Quotes About Culture

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

My favourite museum is the British Museum.

I love the Country Music Hall of Fame. I don't think it's just a hall of fame and it's not just a museum. It's a schoolhouse. It's a place where people from all across the world can come and learn about this great genre that we're making a living out of.

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.

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.

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

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

People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum of Modern Art but won't give a million to the Studio Museum in Harlem is simply mistaken.

If I go to the museum and see white bodies, black bodies, Asian bodies, Latino bodies, then I will expect to see those things every time I go. That matters a lot.

This is the kind of stuff me and my friends talk about. We sit around and drink coffee, and we're really angry: We're like, 'Where's the Latino Museum?' Where can we go with our families, where can we go with our friends to learn about our history?

I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black bodies in it on a museum wall... It strengthened me on a cellular level.

I remember sitting in front of the British Museum and having a moment - an epiphany, I guess - that I just had to live here. And now that I have grown to understand the British sense of humour here, I love the culture, too.

When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I wish there was a museum of sorts for legends like Ellis R Dungan and many others who disappear with the turn of page in the book of time.

I think I was eight the first time I saw the Benin bronzes. I was taken to see them at the British Museum by my white, British mother, who felt it important that her half-Nigerian children learned about the artistic achievements of their forefathers. I've been entranced by them ever since.

Working in a museum has given me a connection to people - to the rest of humanity - that I never had before.

Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.