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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. — D.H. Lawrence

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

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. — Banksy

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time. — Alfred H. Barr Jr.

I'm in favor of an art that does something other than just sit on its ass in a museum. — Claes Oldenburg

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. — Bill Viola

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings ... Boy With Pail ... Kitten On Fire. — Steven Wright

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window. — Karl Pilkington

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. — John Burnside

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 — Albert C. Barnes

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor ... Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom. — Wendy Beckett

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

New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. — Brad Holland

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

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D. — Jerry Saltz

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. — Edmond De Goncourt

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution — Albert C. Barnes

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established. — John Cotton Dana

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

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. — Walter Gropius

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. — Theodore Zeldin

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated. — Janet Fitch

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. — Aleksandra Mir

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 ... — Damien Hirst

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. — Michael Heizer

As cultural politics change, museums change with them. — Sharon Waxman

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. — Kelly Miller

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over. — Doug Aitken

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance. — Matthew Carter

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

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

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

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce

To surround yourself with beauty isn't frivolous. It's a necessity. If it weren't, then our cities would not be surrounded with art museums and parks. — Charlotte Symonds

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. — Dasha Zhukova

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer. — Kiki Smith

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

Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved. — L'Wren Scott

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. — Peter De Vries

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

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. — David Blaine