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Museums Quotes

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Robert Smithson

Memories Past Reality Museums Ground

There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.

Small Black Person Silver Museums

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Robert Smithson

Museum Looks Museums Everything Like

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

History Law World Now Museums More

I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.

Jonathan Anderson

Find Go Museums Difficult Houses

I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.

Coffee Bike Ideas Go Museums Write

I love museums but I don't want to live in one.

Love Live Want Museums I Love

Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to museums. As people conduct their financial transactions on hand-held devices made secure by advanced biometrics, even tipping will be done electronically.

James P. Gorman

People Financial Done Will Museums

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

Elizabeth Perkins

Night Someone You Go Meet Museums

Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.

Art Walls Pizza You Person Museums

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

Will Museums Share Memphis Something

In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.

Life Style You Young Museums Big

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

Work Walls Museums More Going Like

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

John Cotton Dana

Good Great Art Museum Museums More

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Think You Kind Museums Like Stores

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Place Others Museums Historical Take

Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

Good Art Culture You Down Museums

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

Architecture Looking Museums Clothing

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

Richard Stengel

Great Museums Out Corporate Number

I hitchhiked to Miami in 1953, and there were oranges laying on the road, black shantytowns, and marinas with nice boats. The museums were virtually empty.

James Rosenquist

Road Black Miami Nice Museums Empty

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

Places Museums Where Concerts Scene

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

Art Tradition Long Museum Museums

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

Art Money Security Museums Pay Most

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Try Museums Classic Something Solid

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