I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it’s more like a brightly lit bazaar, where art is haggled over and handled like any other commodity. – Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I’ve never gone club-hopping. I’ve never taken the tram to Victoria Peak. – P. J. O’Rourke
What I hope is I’ll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction – an art dealer running a museum. – Jeffrey Deitch
I spend all day in museums. I even eat my lunch in the museum, and I take a nap for one hour there. – John Gokongwei
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. – Jim Dale
Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove. – Kate Williams
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. – Jack Levine
Whether you’re going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special. – Kelly Wearstler
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. – Robert Smithson
I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously. – Quentin Blake
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. – Rudolf Bing
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. – Pierre Loti
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects. – Orhan Pamuk
I’m not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production. – Tino Sehgal
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. – Steven Wright
The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artificial setting – a zoo, not a natural habitat. – Virginia Postrel
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history. – Thomas P. Campbell
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. – Willard Van Orman Quine
I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization. – Susan Vreeland
It’s no coincidence that ‘Night at the Museum’ completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone. – Shawn Levy
Many comedic stars have tried to a do a ‘Night at the Museum’ type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed. – Shawn Levy
I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn’t been changed since the 19th century. – Susanna Kearsley