Quotes About Art

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.

Cutting out images you like from art books and framing them is a great way of getting beautiful works on your wall. You can also frame magazine images or pick up inexpensive art at museum gift shops.

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

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?

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.

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.

Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.

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.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

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.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

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

The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.

Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want - museum quality. You want to go down in the annals of art history.

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.

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