Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere. . . . Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about. . . everything.
Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.
The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want is the chance to be competitive. That's what I think the museum is supposed to be.
I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.
When people go to museums and see a sculpture made out of marble, they appreciate it but it's very doubtful that they will go home and have a slab of marble they can chip away at, but people do have LEGO. I don't have any LEGO specially made for me, all of the shapes, sizes and colours I use are available in stores so that if someone is inspired to create on their own, they can go and buy the very same bricks.
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.
Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.
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.
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent. . . The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component. . . But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.
You see where the fighter jets are so old that they can't get parts anymore. They have to go to plane - airplane graveyards and museums to get parts for our fighter jets that we're currently using. They don't make the parts. And you have other countries that have brand new equipment. And in some cases, we sell them the equipment. The whole thing is ridiculous.
I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.