#museum

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

— Robert Smithson

#collection #everywhere #eye #generalizations #mobilize

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#act #graveyards #memories #museums #parks

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that! ↗

— Anna Sui

#am #fantasy #going #i #i am

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting! ↗

— David Sedaris

#brueghel #museums #proof #art

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. ↗

— Robert McKee

#emotion #experience #mood #museums #story

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd As herds of bellowing buses drive by Love's anguish tightens your throat As if you were never to be loved again If you lived in the old days you would enter a monastery You are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayer You make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your life It's a painting hanging in a dark museum And sometimes you go and look at it close up ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#city #crowd #laughing #laughter #love

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack. ↗

— Richard Stengel

#great #headquarters #incredibly #museums #number

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

#books #go #i #i love #like

How does one measure the success of a museum? ↗

— Paul Getty

#how #measure #museum #success

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#british #british museum #like #marxism #museum