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• I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

  Jenny Holzer

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• The ‘Robben Island Bible’ has arrived at the British Museum. It’s a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  Daniel Hannan

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  Tags in Museum, Arrived

• I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

  George G. Simpson

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• Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

  Pablo Picasso

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• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Museum, Painting

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I’ve ever seen them before.

  Jerry Saltz

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• The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Museum, Finest

• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a ‘conflict of interest.’ But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  Jerry Saltz

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• It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn’t own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself – a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha – to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

  Jerry Saltz

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• I’m noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum’s ‘Younger Than Jesus’ last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I’m seeing it blossom and bear fruit at ‘Greater New York,’ MoMA P.S. 1’s twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Museum, Gallery

• As I went through ‘This Progress,’ one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright’s emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Museum, Spiral

• A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Lately, Museum

• I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

  Bill Wyman

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• Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they’re doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

  Gianni Versace

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• That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

  Edmond de Goncourt

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

  Robert Smithson

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• Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

  Robert Smithson

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• A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.

  Renzo Piano

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• I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.

  Robert T. Bakker

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  Tags in Museum, Chance, Interest

• I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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  Tags in Archive, Collection, Election, Museum, Opponents