Moma Quotes

#1. I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

Delphine Arnault

#2. I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

Susan Stroman

#3. Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

David Rockefeller

#4. MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

Martin Winterkorn

#5. It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

Tim Burton

#6. The good news was that "biology" turned out to be the magic password for working at the Museum of Natural History, just the way "art history" would at the Met or "trust fund" at the MoMA.

Sloane Crosley

#7. MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

David Rockefeller

#8. As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

Jerry Saltz

#9. People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs.

Duane Michals

#10. From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Martin Filler

#11. My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.

Robert Adams

#12. 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.

Gerhard Richter

#13. There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Theodore Sturgeon

#14. Do you become in visible?'
'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.

Patricia A. McKillip

#15. People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?

John Darnielle

#16. Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people.

Vivian Amis

#17. That's where they found the skeletons. Right where you're standing.

Teresa Flavin

#18. Yo mamma's so old her memory comes in black and white. Yo mamma's so old she was playmates with Adam and Eve.

The Moma Factory

#19. You can't make someone else do anything, even if you know you're right.

Sue Grafton