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Museum Quotes

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

Art Museum Chicago Museums Inside

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Library Think Feel Museum Place

I first drew the attention of my future husband when we were fourteen, on the freshman school bus for an epic field trip from Riverside, Calif. to Los Angeles, where we were taken to the L.A. Zoo as well as the Natural History Museum.

Future History School Husband Museum

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Pauline Phillips

Church Museum Hospital Saints

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

Thomas P. Campbell

History Art Museum Timeline Like

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

Richard Phillips

War Painting World Museum New Want

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Design View Museum Prejudice Against

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.

Kerry James Marshall

Time Black White Museum Go Will

For me, to put together my museum and all my remembrances was a big effort mentally, physically and monetarily.

Together Effort Me Museum Big Put

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

David Chipperfield

Quality People Construction Museum

The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat.

Virginia Postrel

Art Museum Zoo Natural Habitat Many

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.

Museum Holocaust Washington Right Up

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.

World Museum Jazz Soviet Union Union

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

Beautiful Feel You Museum Living

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

You Museum Alive Lucky Dead See

I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

Museum Play Never Hong Kong Gone

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.

Good Great Dress Me Museum Jazz

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Edmond de Goncourt

World Picture Museum More Nonsense

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Water Architecture House Museum Edge

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.

Art Lie Conflict World Museum Say

I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there.

Day Lunch Museum Nap Museums Eat

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Robert Smithson

Museum Matter Going Void Visiting

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Community Great Museum Artists

I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

Women Art Culture Book Museum Group

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