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Museum Quotes

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

Art New York Museum Place New York

When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.

School Year You Museum Nobody Know

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

David Rockefeller

Mother Art Museum Person She Modern

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Change Words Museum Myth Switch

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

Purpose Society Free Museum Liberty

I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.

Love Great Museum Boston Madrid

My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater.

George C. Wolfe

Museum Play Done First Theater

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

Art America You Museum Cards Go

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

Live Museum Seriously Streets Come

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

Art Museum Critics Movement Had

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

Space Reading Name Die Long Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Work Art Better Seeing Museum Go

I don't want music to be a museum.

Music Museum Want

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Care Museum More Fancy Somewhere

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

Impact Museum Make Who Personally

I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I took it home, and I was, like, 12 years old or something.

Home Art Gift Remember Museum First

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.

Time Museum Right Time Go Will Land

If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

People Bible Museum Earth Say Want

I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

City End Museum April First Excited

If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.

Donald Johanson

Walk Landscape You Find Museum Go

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?

Christian Louboutin

Art Shoes Design High Heels Museum

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.

History Blue Feel You Look Museum

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Baby Chill Universe Museum Two Half

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

Name Famous Museum Place Paris

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