Quotes by Museums One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. Giorgio de Chirico live-life inspirational museums A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. Glenn Gould curator records museums The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. Gilbert K. Chesterton intellectual self museums My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything. Grace Gummer dad artist museums What I love about IMAX is that, when you're in an IMAX theater, in a museum, science center or aquarium, it's eight stories tall and it's immersive, and you can see it in 3D, you really feel like you're being transported to that place. Greg MacGillivray aquariums eight museums 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 educational views museums Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. Hans Haacke jacuzzi wall museums What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust. Hans Haacke issues museums art The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency museums. Hans F. Sennholz gold museums long 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 ongoing museums art ~I'm not someone who [lives] like, 'OK, this is a museum and you can't sit here and you can't touch this and everything has to be put in its place - [the kids] live here as much as we do. You come into our house and a giant elephant and lion are welcoming you. We have toys and things everywhere.~ Heidi Klum parenting museums kids Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. Henri Rabaud music museums country In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Henry James radical palaces museums Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself. Haruki Murakami empty sometimes museums I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced? Herbert sound museums rooms I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room. Hiro Murai emotional together museums I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards. Hiroshi Sugimoto australia offering museums When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child. Howard Gardner teacher museums children When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there. I. M. Pei wings opportunity museums Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. Iggy Azalea music-is museums art «678910111213141516»