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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. -- Arnold Palmer
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. -- George Santayana
I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese. -- Larry Ellison
I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance. -- Matthew Carter
Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work. -- Ai Weiwei
The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated. -- Janet Fitch
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job. -- Thomas Hoving
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum. -- Larry Ellison
Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional. -- Aleksandra Mir
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. -- Dave Barry
If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack! -- Arielle Ford
I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it. -- John Hawkes
Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum. -- Jimmy Fallon
I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to. -- Neil Farber
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater. -- Shea Hembrey
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. -- John Green
An art book is a museum without walls. -- Andre Malraux
Art should be created for life, not for the museum. -- Jean Nouvel
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. -- Jack Levine
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. -- Jerry Saltz
More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art. -- Danny Meyer
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. -- Iggy Azalea
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way. -- Thelma Golden
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
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. -- Eli Broad
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. -- David Rockefeller
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. -- Christo
Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. -- Jerry Saltz
When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandparents enrolled me in art classes at Worcester Art Museum, which I attended from sixth to 12th grade. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them. -- Jeff Koons
It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. -- Jerry Saltz
Art should be created for life, not for the museum -- Jean Nouvel
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution -- Albert C. Barnes
Love is an art. Mine could fill a museum the size of your heart. -- Jarod Kintz
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. -- Ambrose Bierce
Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers. -- Theodora Goss
I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. -- Claes Oldenburg
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. -- Tania Bruguera
I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art. -- Sylvester Stallone
The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. -- Jerry Saltz
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. -- Richard Meier
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. -- Kiki Smith
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum." -- Jeffrey Deitch
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. -- William Eggleston
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality... -- Damien Hirst
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. -- Michael Heizer
The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art. -- Harold Rosenberg
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. -- Thomas P. Campbell
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. -- Jock Sturges
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. -- Siri Hustvedt
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists. -- Ad Reinhardt
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. -- Kelly Miller
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting - a zoo, not a natural habitat. -- Virginia Postrel
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist? -- Christian Louboutin
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
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. -- Steve Martin
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -- Tim Gunn
I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color. -- William Eggleston
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding. -- Theaster Gates
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people - the Art Museum and a world class symphony that's still world class. -- Harvey Pekar

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