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Quotes About Art Museum

Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class.
~ Harvey Pekar
I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!
~ Patti Smith
Detroit Art Institute Museum the
~ Alice Randall
I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance.
~ Matthew Carter
We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.
~ Julien Baker
A docent is another name for a teacher. Mr. Peters will walk through the art museum with us and tell us about the artists and their work. Docent shmocent, Gracie muttered. Her eyes were on the eighth graders clustered at the other side of the lobby. This isn't going to be any fun after all. Meg hoped Gracie wasn't going to sulk. I think our docent is handsomer than theirs, Meg whispered. Actually, he's a pretty decent docent. To her relief, Gracie began to giggle.
~ Betty Ren Wright
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.
~ Shea Hembrey
I can often be found in an art museum. Mostly I like being in a museum because I find visual art both absorbing and disorienting. I don't know very much about painting. I have taken exactly one art history course, and I can't draw a credible stick figure. I like being in a space where my senses are stimulated, indeed swamped, and where I don't know enough to think my way out of the experience.
~ Lauren F. Winner
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.
~ Thomas Heatherwick
museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing
~ Dan Brown
Robert Langdon recibe una llamada en mitad de la noche: el conservador del museo del Louvre ha sido asesinado en extrañas circunstancias y junto a su cadáver ha aparecido un desconcertante mensaje cifrado.
~ Dan Brown
Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.
~ Aleksandra Mir