#museums

Museums, I love museums. ↗

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it). ↗

— Alain de Botton

#buildings #museums #architecture

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#around #artists #berlin #designers #even

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#museums #par #restaurants

Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by Velma Kimbell, the founder’s widow, in 1964). Those groups no doubt respond to the Kimbell with suitable reverence, but given the buildings they later commissioned, many post-Bilbao museum patrons obviously wanted something quite different. The disparity between Kahn’s museums and recent examples of that genre parallels the discrepancy he saw between postwar Modernism and ancient Classicism: “Our stuff looks tinny compared to it.” At a time when commercial values are systematically corrupting the museum - one of civilized society’s most elevating experiences - the example of Kahn, among the most courageous and successful architectural reformers of all time, seems more relevant and cautionary than ever. ↗

— Martin Filler

#louis-kahn #museums #architecture

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

I love museums but I don't want to live in one. ↗

— Tim Cook

#i love #live #love #museums #want

I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#back #good #home #i #just

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. ↗