Quotes About Great Museums

#1. We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the sanctuary of the earth shards and fragments, and gently placing them in museums. Great museums in great cities - the hallmarks of civilisation.

Kathleen Jamie

#2. The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

Richard Stengel

#3. The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.

Richard Fortey

#4. Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.

Julie Gonzalo

#5. Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.

S. Kelley Harrell

#6. If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously ... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past ...

Nelson Shanks

#7. What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

Gabriel Orozco

#8. There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Zaha Hadid

#9. You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.

Judith Miller

#10. Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

Yoko Ono

#11. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

Eduardo Chillida

#12. If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

Jack Hyles

#13. If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.

Bill Watterson

#14. Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

Leonard Nimoy

#15. But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums.

Orhan Pamuk

#16. Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

C. G. Jung

#17. Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

James Hogg

#18. Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

Hans Haacke

#19. A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

John Cotton Dana

#20. Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Peter Zumthor

#21. In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.

Rand Paul

#22. I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

Owen Wilson

#23. To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.

Laurence Gonzales

#24. I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

Jason Patric

#25. My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about ... everything.

Grace Gummer

#26. Unless you've walked in another person's skin, you don't know what he's put up with, what he's gone through,

Linda Lael Miller

#27. Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Jerry Saltz

#28. 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

#29. Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.

Scotty Cameron

#30. I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

Chelsea Cain

#31. Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Serge Lang

#32. Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

Arne Glimcher

#33. I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

#34. I can't stand cruelty to animals. Nothing gives a man the right to take his frustrations out on an innocent creature

Elise Noble

#35. Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

Liz Phair