Museum Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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Growing up in Versailles is like growing up in a museum, and the people living there are almost the security.
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It has been my dream for many years to expand our little museum into something very special that can do justice in presenting our incredible story to the many thousands of people who visit the factory every year to take the tour. Finally that dream has come to fruition.
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The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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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.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
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I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
