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Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.
They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.
I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.
Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.
Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.
The museums want large crowds coming to the shows - it's the same thing. It's hype. Absolutely. But there's nothing evil about it.
Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.
When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
The American Museum of Natural History is my son's absolute favorite place in the world! So we really, really, really love New York.
I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there's always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It's a great jewel box.
Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market as it is to have a picture in a museum.
I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for me and I couldn't have it.
As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.
I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.
Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.
If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art.
Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.
At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in 1906 to modern space travel.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
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.
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.