Museums Quotes - Page 18

• I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring the painting for some time, and then realized that in addition to feeling moved by the beauty of the painting, I felt a little jealous of the painter.

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Taken, Jealous

  Source: newwest.net

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• All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

  Max Tegmark

  School, Past, Shaping The Future

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.509, Vintage

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• Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Lonely, Moving

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

  Michael Heizer

  Art, Metropolitan, Collections

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• Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of all ages. As a parent and an artist, Im especially looking forward to leaving a legacy at The Childrens Museum, a place where I hope my work brings joy to children who visit from all over the world.

  Dale Chihuly

  Art, Children, Glasses

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• The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

  Richard Fortey

  Intelligent, Class, Growth

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• Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together.

  Jerry Saltz

  Eye, Other Worlds, Together

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• But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, People, Hopeful

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures from year to year. In addition, the advertising business operates with optical signals as well as representations. Exhibitions and museums are indeed offspring of this visual hustle.

  Otto Neurath

  Men, Illustration, Years

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• I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Pain, Japan, Feelings

  "Koizumi: 'Heartfelt remorse' for Korean suffering" By Sohn Jie-Ae, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2001.

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• The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Life, Morning, Artist

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• Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for example, I was struck by its marginalization of any other victims apart from the Jews, to the extent that it presented photographs of dead bodies in camps such as Buchenwald or Dauchau as dead Jewish bodies, when in fact relatively few Jewish prisoners were held there.

  Richard J. Evans

  Memorial, Holocaust, Example

  Richard J. Evans (2007). “Lying About Hitler”, p.261, Basic Books

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• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Successful, Thinking, Light

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• Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

  Van Day Truex

  Inspiration, Ideas, Design

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• If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favourable than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel.

  Arthur Eddington

  Book, Writing, Army

  The Nature of the Physical World ch. 4 (1928)

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• If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.

  A. A. Gill

  Science, Order, Memorial

  A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

  Kiki Smith

  Memories, Thinking, Lifetime

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• Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

  Igor Babailov

  Exercise, Copying, Essentials

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• Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

  Ralph Caplan

  Design, Should, Mummy

  Ralph Caplan (2006). “Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects”, Fairchild Books

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• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Distance, Men, Years

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Lifetime, Filled

  "A Natural History of Love". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1994.

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• When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a major museum, it must be important, what is going on here? I stayed until the museum closed. His Screen Test films are some of my favorite works made this century, but you need to give them back the time they took to be made.

  Uta Barth

  Art, Giving, Important

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• The biggest looters are the British Museum.

  Lowkey

  British, British Museum

  Song: Dear England

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  Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

  Banksy

  Art, Bus Stops, Interesting

  "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall". Book by Banksy, 2001.

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• To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

  Jan Phillips

  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

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