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We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader.

The road to a clinic goes through the pathologic museum and not through the apothecary's shop.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

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

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

Restaurants are a much easier way to introduce Americans to a culture than getting them into museums.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

In my mornings I can do what I like - go to art galleries, museums and things, go to lunch with people.

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

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