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Museum Quotes

Words from inside the galleries.

This museum quotes collection turns readers into museum goers and back again, asking what a great museum should foster before anything else: serious seeing.

The Creation Museum isn't really a museum at all. It's an argument. It's not even an argument. It's the ammunition for an argument. It is the Word made into bullets. An armory of righteous revisionism.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

Quotes by Susan Vreeland

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

Quotes by Rudolf Bing

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

Quotes by Robert T. Bakker

Argument Quotes

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

Quotes by Robert Smithson

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

Quotes by Robert Smithson

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

Quotes by Robert Smithson

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

Quotes by Richard C. Armitage

A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

Quotes by Peter Landesman

Army Quotes

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Quotes by Pauline Phillips

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Quotes by Mark Stevens

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

Quotes by Mario Botta

I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.

Quotes by Marcel Dzama

Art Quotes

I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.

Quotes by Mack Wilberg

Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.

Quotes by Jes Macallan

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

Quotes by Jeffrey Deitch

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Quotes by Jeff Koons

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Quotes by Jean Nouvel

Artist Quotes

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Quotes by Jack Levine

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the goal described for museum visitors in this topic?
One quote expresses hope to turn readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers, treating the two habits as feeding into each other rather than being separate pursuits.
What should a great museum prioritize, according to these quotes?
One quote poses it as a question, wondering whether cultivating genuine, focused attention ought to come before anything else a museum does. It positions that kind of close looking as the core purpose a museum should serve.
How is architecture connected to museums here?
One quote draws a parallel, saying the architect aspires to build in a city the way an artist aspires to exhibit works in a museum, treating both as ways of putting one's work before the public.
Which specific museums are named in this topic?
Two are mentioned by name: the Prado in Madrid and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, both described as favorites in one of the quotes. Related picks are grouped under Art.
Is this topic focused on art museums specifically?
The named examples lean toward art, but the underlying ideas, serious seeing, exhibiting work, and turning visitors into engaged readers, apply broadly to museums as places for close attention rather than any single museum type.

It also names favorites worth the trip, from the Prado to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and how Art and architecture share the same ambition to be seen.