“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
“We've always been among the very finest college art museums in the South and probably America. But now, it's like a new ball game. Everything has doubled. I think it will be a more prominent cultural venue for Central Florida.”
Arthur Blumenthal
“Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.”
Helen Keller
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
Pablo Picasso
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”
Arnold Palmer
“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“the great strength is that the art worked outside of galleries and museums. It did not need them. (They need it.)”
David Hockney
