(237 quotes found)
“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
“I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.”
Stephen Wright
“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
“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.”
Libby Gelman-Waxner
“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”
Arnold Palmer
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list / the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
Karl Marx
“Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.”
Conan O'Brien
“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
William S. Burroughs
“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
