Quotes: Museums

As for pictures and museums, that don’t trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you’ve always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we’d talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody’s own vacancy.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he’d shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country’s most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.