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A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.
We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.
Museums have these great collections and the reality is they attract a regional audience not a national audience.
The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.
Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
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.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.
People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.
American museums have become cautious, because it is very hard to get money to do something different or controversial.
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
I like to read, walk, cook, and travel to cities. We live in the country, so we miss museums and the bustle of city life.
I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
My dream was always to be in museums. It's a big and important milestone and a fulfillment of one of my primary ambitions.
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.
We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.