A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
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Related Espionage debriefings are exhaustive and meticulous, BURTON Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attentio... TEJU COLE There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhi... RICHARD PHILLIPS An art book is a museum without walls. ANDRE MALRAUX What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past. JOHN HODGMAN I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more... ELISABETH VON THURN UND TAXIS There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. GERARD WAY The airport authority is optimistic it will be constructed. BRUCE FRALLIC If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by wh... MATTHEW MODINE Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's some... MIKE MILLS Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a... ALAIN DE BOTTON Peter has a reputation throughout the state as Mr. Water. He's become over the years an expert on wa... HERB LICHTER My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perf... STEVE PREFONTAINE Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of pro... VIRGINIA POSTREL It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of... ANTONY GORMLEY The doctor?s authorized me to indicate to the public that he acknowledges that he has an alcohol pro... BEN ALLEN Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. IGGY AZALEA We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of W... MARI CARMEN RAMIREZ There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional ... PRATIBHA PATIL Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are... JOHN KNOLL The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is... CHARLTON HESTON In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and als... HENRY MOORE Then the students picked an individual occupation and gave a presentation to other classes and guest... CAROLYN WETZLER Nestor is the spokesman for the status quo, for the tradition-hallowed belief that institutional pow... CAROLINE ALEXANDER The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work ... CLAIRE MESSUD I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i... CLAES OLDENBURG My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibiti... BAR PALY In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewh... MAGNUS LARSSON An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serio... PETER BEARD This is the first time that a major art museum has shown his work. HARRIET WARKEL If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits... J. B. PRIESTLEY All of the paintings in the Museum Art Online collection are known to have a status of world-wide fa... ALAN COOK I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' ... VAL KILMER I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she w... JOHN GREEN Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside... MICHEL TEMER You give the impression of being a meticulous legal navigator, but, in the end, you always seem to c... CHUCK SCHUMER Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artifi... VIRGINIA POSTREL But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. BENJAMIN TUCKER The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every... ROBERT LOVE I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter G... TOM DELONGE It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't ow... JERRY SALTZ Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. T... TOMOKO FUJII In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an ar... CARINE ROITFELD There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass... JOE WRIGHT The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it differe... LESLIE FIEDLER Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's g... ADAM LAMBERT In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into... ELVIS MITCHELL Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove... CHUCK EDDY Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outw... JOHN ORTBERG Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken abou... KEVIN WHATELY I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery reall... PETER SINGER I like to learn. That's an art and a science. KATHERINE JOHNSON A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and M... HANS HAACKE Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be ... LAKE BELL The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and... ELLEN G. WHITE I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into ... JERRY SALTZ The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as ... DAVID TRACY You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It... ADAM BROWN These little cars went like hell, ... About 35 to 50 miles an hour around a course at the art museum... FRANK RIZZO When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one t... MICKALENE THOMAS There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state. STEPHAN JENKINS 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip... JERRY SALTZ I went to a presentation that showed that three-quarters of the streams in the western part of the s... MIKE HAYDEN Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. ARSENE WENGER The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a view... JERRY SALTZ There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself... ROGER DEAKINS Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image... RICK PERLSTEIN Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote ... JOHN CORNWELL I have an institutional fear of big government. 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ROBERT PINSKY When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig th... DIMEBAG DARRELL The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ... GLORIA STEINEM I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I t... OLAFUR ELIASSON I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. T... SIEGFRIED WOLDHEK This is a special time. In terms of the art museum overall, we're moving full speed ahead. MIMI GATES 'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually ... LUKE EVANS Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each ... GWEN IFILL In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or... GARY HAMEL I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is look... BARBARA KRUGER To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than m... MAX BEERBOHM I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. CARL ANDRE The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend... DONNA MILLS A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. RENZO PIANO A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art. MARIO BOTTA The mainstream media choose to flaunt story lines that make white America appear guilty of continued... ANDREW BREITBART As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef ... GORDON RAMSAY We can do anything a hotel does for corporations looking for a facility to hold a meeting. Our audio... BRIAN SCHULTZ The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, l... EMIL NOLDE Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous ... RON BEN-ISRAEL Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformatio... CHARLES MCCARRY Within two decades, the institutional framework for a world economic community will be in place. Asp... ROY ASH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON
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