M Quotes
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“Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.”
“Museums are important. Design and art schools are important because they show how it should be done at the highest level of quality. Once people are exposed to quality, they recognize it right away and they appreciate it. People's tastes are changed by exposure to quality. Unless they can see it they can't want it. That's the brilliance of Apple - they provide quality in design.”
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
“Museums are my cathedrals. Artifacts in glass cases are my sacred relics. I truly believe I have felt something close to religious fervor inside some of these buildings. I even feel that I have experienced the occasional transcendent moment inside a museum.”
Source: 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
“Museums are places of worship for those whose faith dwells in human stories.”
“Museums are preserving the past and propelling us into the future.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous.”
Source: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
“Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality.”
“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.”
“Museums have a simple way to love their story and i enjoy greatly to visit it”
“Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.”
“Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.”
“Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged - the Kunsthalle or alternative space which only presents temporary, contemporary shows. Yet art is not just about the future - it is about the future and the present, but it also can't forget the past.”
“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.”
“MUSEUMS OF INFAMY
A dynasty that thrived on
And blatantly celebrates
Racism and anti-Semitism
Belongs not to the 21st century
But the throes of history
In the museums of infamy
Under the banner ‘House of Orange”
“Museums of primitive art are filled with masks, figurines, bas-relief sculptures, all looted from all over the world and robbed of their meanings. For those who created them, life resided not in the object itself, but rather in the spirit that inspired it. A corpse, even one artistically entombed, is still a dead body. They are no longer works of art, but simply objects. They are beautiful, whereas they should be alive, From time immemorial, humans have sculpted to magnify their gods. There is a reason why some religions are against any depiction of their gods while others are committed to the practice. There is some form of highly human insolence in recreating the god that created you, and there is a risk of adoring the tangible representation in itself instead of the discarnate deity. That is what sculpture is: both a tribute and a challenge to the gods. Some spiritualities tolerate this ambivalence, others don't. Others yet use representations to further tighten control over their flock and guarantee their submissiveness. They select the artists and dictate the dogma they should represent.
Sculpture is both the easiest and the most delicate of art forms. It is more than just hewing a form out of a compact block, or reproducing a model: you have to breathe life into It. That is not something you can learn or improvise. There is always some part of yourself that you infuse into the material. In our modern world, where art is a business like any other, techniques are taught, but the magic, on the other hand, is still a gift, midway between bliss and suffering.”
Source: Days Come and Go
“Museums preserve global and human history in a concrete way: they house the real thing.”
Source: Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums
“Museums should be places where you raise questions, not just show stuff.”
“Museums suck," said Billy.
The bus rattled along between tan fields.
"Right?" said Charlie.
"History," said Higgins. "Shit like that.”
Source: The Water Museum
“Museums tell stories so much better than textbooks do. And that's what history is, isn't it? It's just a really big story. That's what makes it important. And museums get that. Textbooks don't.”
Source: Out Now: Queer We Go Again!
“Museums that aren't perfect are the ones that I love. Museums that aren't overdesigned. I always like to visit the strange, odd museums. In New York, the Frick is absolutely my favorite, favorite place because I like to think that it was someone's home not that long ago.”
“Museums, whatever their content, are logical design arenas. Their renewed vitality reflects a spreading curatorial perception that a museum is a designed situation more than it is a warehouse open to the public. This in turn has made it possible for a great many people, including children, to perceive museum-going as something to do, rather than something that is done to you.”
Source: By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
“Museums, I love museums.”
“Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.”
“MUSHAKABVU, I may be in a tough spot, but I am more worried about you. I have never experienced anything close to a sense of kinship with any of my clients, let alone those I have never met. However, the world you sent me to investigate has inspired a selfless concern that is uncommon between strangers. I hope you are just a curious, distant observer in the affairs I have been probing ... But something tells me this hope was frustrated long before our acquaintance.”
Source: The Hangman's Replacement: Sprout of Disruption
“Mushroom hunting in Provence is veiled in secrecy, second only to truffle hunting in the level of dissimulation and suspicion it inspires. If you are lucky enough to find a good spot, you might unearth skinny yellow and black trompettes de la mort (trumpets of death) or flat meaty pleurots (oyster mushrooms) or even small spongelike black morels. If you are not sure exactly what you've found, you can take your basket to the local pharmacy, and the pharmacist will help you sort the culinary from the potentially deadly--- it's part of their training.”
Source: Picnic in Provence: A Memoir with Recipes
“Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.”
“Mushrooms can be very fancy. It's the closest you can get to eating dirt.”
“Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.”
“Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.”
“Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because the real mushroom plant was underground. The parts you could see - what most people called a mushroom - was just a brief apparition. A cloud flower.”
Source: The Year Of The Flood
“Mushy reviews are a breach of faith”
Source: Essays in Disguise
“Music”
“Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.”
“Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.”
“Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.”
“Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.”
“Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.”
Source: On Music and Musicians
“Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.”
“music / I let it wake me / take me / Spin me around and make me / Uh get down.”
“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.”
Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion
“Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.”
“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.”
“Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.”
“Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.”
“Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world”
Source: The Soul of the World
“Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.”
“Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.”
“Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.”