Museum Quotes

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

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

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

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.

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

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

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

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.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

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

An art book is a museum without walls.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.