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“We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.”

People Knows Needs Running Young Knowing Risk Information Becoming Holy Museums Not Knowing Knowing What To Do

Author:Pope Francis

“One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.”

Ifs World Inspirational Imagine Mystery Live Life Museums Living My Life Enjoy Life Strangeness Enigma

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.”

Art Stills Form Causes Pieces Figures Innovation Museums Flood Nostalgic Scrap Predecessors Antiques

Book:Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world

Source: Marshall McLuhan: The argument: causality in the electric world

“And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.”

Ifs Mean Art Enough Millions Justify Museums Visitors

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Peace is not just the absence of war and conflict; it goes well beyond that. Peace must be fostered within the individual, within the family and within society. Simply transferring the world's nuclear weapons to a museum will not in itself bring about world peace. The nuclear weapons of the mind must first be eliminated.”

World Mind Firsts Wells War Individual Religious Conflict Weapons Absence Nuclear Museums Nuclear Weapons

Book:Living In Harmony

Source: Living In Harmony

“DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.”

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Author:Tony Stewart

“I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.”

Ifs Thinking Art Stills Character Dream Today Artist Interesting Wonder Alive Wonderful Serious Scene Museums Canvas Marvelous Live For Today Hopes And Dreams

Book:Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland

Source: Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland

“Art should be created for life, not for the museum”

Life Should Art Creation Creating Architecture Museums Arts And Humanities

Author:Jean Nouvel

“If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is the fact that it's 2,600 or so years old, and it was done by a human being at that time who you have such a limited ability to grasp - and yet you have this enormous ability to grasp.”

Ifs Years Mind Humans Done Facts Beautiful Human Beings Ability Wonderful Objects Enormous Greek Museums Marble

Author:Michael Steinhardt

“Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.”

Memories Youth California Museums Disgusting Twisted Vaults

Author:Peter S. Beagle

“Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.”

Ifs Virtue Painting Taste Garden Dancing Museums Scorn Palaces Keepers Good Taste Bad Taste

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The biggest looters are the British Museum.”

British Museums British Museum

Author:Lowkey

“I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.”

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Author:Violet Trefusis

“Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.”

Art Animal Taken Objects Died Native Museums Zoos Removal Habitat

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.”

Art Made Enough Artist Found Interesting Pieces Objects Materials Weapons Moved Made It Artistic Museums Display Quotations Presenter Driftwood

Author:Gary Saul Morson

“An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.”

Museums Quotations Utterance Anthology

Author:Gary Saul Morson

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”

Common Civilization Taxes Police Soldier Seeds Lists Servant Greek Dancer Priests Museums Ballet Fabulous Taxation Gothic Slumber Ballet Dancer Embryos Civil Servants Steeples

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.”

Different School Fun Cutting Share Hearing Museums Potatoes Expertise Beef Old School Waiter Good Food Baked Potatoes

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.”

Writing Looks Art I Can Happens Jobs Wife My Wife Contemporary Museums Basements Contemporary Art Curator

Author:John Green

“When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.”

World Trying Real Film Actors Painting Directors Museums

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“The reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA asked me, and because I consider it to be the best museum in the world.”

World Art Reason Interest New York Painting Being The Best Museums Disappointed Destined I Am Disappointed

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interst - and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen.”

People Firsts Wells Looks Art Shows Running Desire Song Sides Interest Quality Pieces Painting Please Museums Running Away Delighted Wise People Layman

Author:Gerhard Richter

“You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.”

World Should Trying Art Funny Views Humorous France Range Museums Tourists Mona Lisa Louvre World Famous

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.”

“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.”

World Believe Culture I Believe Vision Genius Instinct Fingers Museums Aesthetic Echoes Pulse Murphy Warhol Pittsburgh

Author:Dylan McDermott

“We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.”

Heart Government Next Doors Operations Print Museums Holocaust Private Sector Brits Essex

Author:Evan Davis

“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.”

Art Different Whole Common Fans Fine Grew Walking Grew Up Red Parks Halls Museums Boston Symphony Fine Arts Different Times Whole Family Red Sox Fans Fenway Park

Author:James Spader

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

Writing Study New York Program Independent Moved Museums Whitney

Author:Jenny Holzer

“I like day dates. On night dates, you just go somewhere and start drinking. But if you really want to see if a girl is worth your time, go to a museum or for coffee.”

Ifs Want Night Girl Drinking Coffee Museums Worth Your Time

Author:Leslie Bibb

“Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.”

Directors Impact Museums Exhibitions

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.”

Art Running Individual Museums Abstraction Dealer

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“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.”

People World Should Black Loses Should Have Towns Backgrounds Recognition Museums Black People Alienation Relationships With Others

Author:Katherine Dunham

“It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.”

Years School Lasts Performances Spending Museums Bizarre Boston Magnetic

Author:Alex Grey

“I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.”

Care Mother Inspiring Baby Saving Fancy Museums I Care Mothers Day Mother And Baby

Author:Melinda Gates

“I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.”

Museums Eastern Berlin

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Art Directors Lists Museums Collectors

Author:Olafur Eliasson

“I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.”

Art Running Media Wall Entertainment Paris Someday Museums

Author:Warren Zevon

“The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.”

Humans Gold British Islands Collections Museums Finest Human Intelligence British Museum

Author:Daniel Hannan

“I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.”

Firsts Hands Today Black Views Effort Player Majors Baseball League Museums Major League Major League Baseball

Author:Ferguson Jenkins

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