Art should be created for life, not for the museum.
Jean Nouvel
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A.E. SAMAAN A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communica...
ORHAN PAMUK We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemp...
CHRISTO The Elgin Marbles were supposed to be on the Parthenon. For many works of art, a museum is an artifi...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Laura Lee and I wanted to participate in the restoration of downtown in some way, so we looked at op...
STEVE WILSON You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This ...
STEVE MARTIN Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha...
C. JOYBELL C. A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
ELBERT GREEN HUBBARD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Just Be LOVE!
DIAN HUFF KISER The museum was interested in me for a long time because I use Archie comics in my art.
DANIEL O'CONNOR I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cann...
JEAN NOUVEL It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is ...
JEAN NOUVEL I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a ...
JEAN NOUVEL Oh, it's at the Art Museum. It's martinis. That sounds like a really nice sophisticated event. We sh...
ERINN LOBDELL Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.
TOBA BETA What brought you here, may not keep you here
SOTONYE ANGA Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN There are many ways to the life we live,
none so right, or so profound, as the one
that is uniquely ...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful m...
FRANZ MARC To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe th...
GERMANY KENT I am so excited my daddy's art will finally be shown in a museum. I believe he orchestrated this fro...
CINDY MILLER It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.
GEORGE CARLIN Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced sec...
JERRY SALTZ We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
JOHN LYDON If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.
HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fif...
HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA "I am no longer tryinqq to survive, I believe life iz a prize, but to live doezn'tt mean yhu're aliv...
MACKENZIE GARCIA I haven't got time to read books.'
'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d...
PAULO COELHO An illiterate person who dies, let us say at my age, has lived one life, whereas I have lived the li...
UMBERTO ECO You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in...
ORHAN PAMUK If I break the glass, then I'll have to fly, There's no one to catch me if I take a dive. I'm scared...
LINDSEY STIRLING Kamil thinks to himself that these are eyes that see everything, ravenous eyes. He feels a pang of l...
JENNY WHITE Elizabeth squirmed on the hard wooden bench, and tried to ignore both her sore backside and her rumb...
ANYA SETON Preserve history. Don't delete it.
JOE NICKOLAS PELECH If you're not focusing on becoming so good they can't ignore you, you're going to be left behind. Th...
CAL NEWPORT Sometimes it's better to keep quiet instead of making noise to the air. Make a noise when you have a...
THOMAS BOAKYE Sometimes it's better to keep quiet instead of making noise to the air. Make a noise when you have a...
KWADWO BOAKYE I think if you had someplace to escape to once in a while , it'd help you deal with whatever you're ...
CHRIS COLFER THE LAND OF STORIES Sometimes...fear does not subside and...one must choose to do it afraid.
ELIZABETH ELLIOTT If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows that it ...
LUKE EASTER My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. ...
JEAN PAUL A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
PAULINE PHILLIPS A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL BUREN A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. An art book is a museum without walls.
ANDRE MALRAUX “The artist must be in the art. If the art does not reflect the work of the artist, then it was cr...
AARON CHAPMAN Everyone is created in the world for others to accomplish hopes among them So, each one should try t...
ARBAB J. EDHI Don’t settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative an...
GERMANY KENT When I was in sixth grade, they slashed the budgets for all of our school art programs, so my grandp...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA This is our first year hosting the exhibit that was traditionally held at the Aspen Art Museum in th...
GAYLE MORTELL What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i...
CLAES OLDENBURG Art is created by the artist and defined by the viewer. The same goes for our character.
TYLER J. HEBERT Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many a...
JERRY SALTZ We want it to be a museum for faux.
ADRIENNE VAN DOOREN Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yoursel...
SELENA GóMEZ Brad phoned to ask about the accessibility of the museum and how easy it might be for him to visit u...
WENDY TAYLOR Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
FERNANDO BOTERO Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for mi...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.
MANDY HALE Madame Jean is not a sovereigntist,
JEAN LAPIERRE Spread love. Hug the people you care about and make sure they know that you care and appreciate them...
GERMANY KENT We added some verbiage that water quality (should be protected) for purposes of human enjoyment as w...
LAURI KEMPER I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.
SLICK RICK The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN The SALT Block does have physical needs. The West Classroom building and auditorium needs renovating...
HUGH BOYER But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in...
TIM GUNN If a human being has been created through fertilization, we think that life should be respected.
JOE POJMAN The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
SARAH DESSEN It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
SARAH DESSEN Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do...
LARRY BROWN We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, ...
ORHAN PAMUK The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
GARY HUME The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. FORSTER Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
UNKNOWN Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance
PROVERB United For Life (UFL)
JEROEN SAEY From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Live as though life was created for you.
MAYA ANGELOU I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the inf...
JEFF KOONS It was important for us as a museum to be connected with a bar. It's not just history but a living c...
JARED BROWN Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU