Museums Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Museum on the south side.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Blessed, Numbers

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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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• 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.

  Jerry Saltz

  Running, Art, Lying

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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Needs, Purpose

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• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Block, Mean

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• Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Important, World

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• I’d been to the British museum before. In fact I’ve been in more museums than I like to admit—it makes me sound like a total geek. [That’s Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis.]

  Rick Riordan

  Yelling, Sound, Facts

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Eye, Oneness

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• I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Vincent Price (1959). “I Like what I Know: A Visual Autobiography”

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• There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not “decorate” it; she infused it.

  Michael Chabon

  Canvas, Bedroom, Made

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.247, Random House

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• Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

  Derek Landy

  Cities, Dublin, Quiet

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• The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.

  John Banville

  Thinking, World, Visitors

  John Banville (2009). “The Untouchable”, p.58, Vintage

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• Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Art, Fall, Men

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense Of Life”, p.59, tredition

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• In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could--a look, a whisper, a moan--to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Art, Memories

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.117, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Glasses, People

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Gun

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• Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Play, Promise

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• Evolutionism is a religious world view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax supported schools, parks, museums, etc. is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

  Kent Hovind

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• New Rule: Since our new national position on science is, "Screw it, we prefer witchcraft," let's not just retire the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Let's drive it to one of the five stupidest States and have the locals beat it with sticks. Putting it in a museum is too dangerous. Someone could steal it, fly it into space and notice we revolve around the sun.

  Bill Maher

  Space, Atlantis, Sun

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.162, Penguin

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• They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

  Casey Stengel

  Baseball, Bidding, Remarkable

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• We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.

  Samuel Sharpe

  Christian, Unity, Atheism

  Samuel Sharpe (1863). “Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom”, p.14

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