Claes Oldenburg quote: "It's got the context of a very good architect [Renzo Piano, who designed the expansion] and an excellent museum. You couldn't ask for more."

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ARNE GLIMCHER

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

A museum more than just an institution that houses objects. We took a look at how the museum uses it...
JAN SMITH

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JAMES FARMER

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BRISTOL VOSS

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DAVE ANDERSON

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i...
CLAES OLDENBURG

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped o...
CLAES OLDENBURG

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
CLAES OLDENBURG

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the archit...
CLAES OLDENBURG

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not...
CLAES OLDENBURG

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personal...
CLAES OLDENBURG

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, bu...
CLAES OLDENBURG

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.
CLAES OLDENBURG

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WENDY TAYLOR

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
ALEXANDER JACKSON DAVIS

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to p...
RENZO PIANO

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, abou...
RENZO PIANO

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
RENZO PIANO

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and...
RENZO PIANO

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and ye...
RENZO PIANO

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full ...
RENZO PIANO

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like...
RENZO PIANO

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from w...
RENZO PIANO

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial vers...
RENZO PIANO

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. Bu...
RENZO PIANO

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something ve...
RENZO PIANO

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
RENZO PIANO

The north hill is devoted to Paul Klee the musician and teacher, the central hill to the painter and...
RENZO PIANO

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity...
RENZO PIANO

I don't remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
RENZO PIANO

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start fr...
RENZO PIANO

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not neces...
RENZO PIANO

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BOB HESS

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of it...
LOUIS KAHN

Open for only six months, with the exhibition development program still under way, the balloon museu...
TOM CROUCH

Expansion via debt is a good move for Chocolates, which has zero debt now. It may put the company on...
EDGAR JIMENEZ

If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you&#...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Non-manufacturers have become a little more optimistic. That's very, very important for assessing th...
HUW MCKAY

You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer.
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order t...
ARNE JACOBSEN

You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers...
CLAY SHIRKY

The Dance Museum will be able to invest its resources toward positive goals and a more successful fu...
MARCIA WHITE

Levi is an exceptional player who really understands the game and has all the tools to be a very goo...
GARY MCCLURE

He is an excellent iron player and very good putter,
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BOB HARRICK

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BOB HARRICK

The attraction for us is first of all Pavol is a very good person and he's been an excellent player,...
DAVE TAYLOR

Cheney came to the region seeking an exit for the US from the swamp it willingly got itself into and...
HASSAN NAFAA

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is es...
NORMAN FOSTER

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more an...
RICHARD HYUNG-KI JOO

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

It is an expansion of what are we are doing already. A very nice expansion.
LOU MANCINI

Its better to be a good mason, than to be a bad architect.
IMRAN NAZIR

They're just a very good team. They've got excellent shooters, they're well-coached, they're very sm...
MARK LEE

Signor Renzo's lodge stood on a grassy knoll near the crest of the hill. It was a modest place, just...
MARTINE BAILEY

It was designed by Evansville architect Frank Slaughter. There's a lot of great designing to it.
DENNIS AU

'PiAno,piAno'It's not a bloody piano, its a clarenARt...you weird talking person.
EDDIE IZZARD

You are a significant, unique, independent, individual soul, who has ventured into this world to exp...
LORRAINE NILON

I don't see Oldenburg as an influence, but he casts a big shadow as an extraordinary artist,
DONALD LIPSKI

He was a handful today. He's got excellent size as a shooter. He's also athletic and can beat you of...
DENNIS FELTON

The company's excellent financial performance, including 16 consecutive quarters of revenue and prof...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN

You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th...
ROBERT SMITHSON

I build rhymes like an architect/ Why you sniff more lines than Etch A Sketch/
SEAN CROSBY

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GUS KOCH

'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't r...
ADAM DRIVER

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THE PROPHET OF LIFE

The building was designed with students in mind. This is their Museum, first and foremost.
ARTHUR BLUMENTHAL

It would be an excellent starting point. We've got volunteers who would be glad to help you out.
BILL MINISH

he called you a hoe cuz he couldnt stop thinking of you with someone else and that scared him he cal...
WOW

Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w...
RAY BRADBURY

We tried to distinguish between violence which, in its context, might send an appropriate message, a...
JEFF COLE

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JOEL QUENNEVILLE

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BOB HARRICK

This is for the folks who are doing a good to excellent job. The program is going to be very competi...
DANA HOLLAND

A Childrens Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is...
JAMES LILEKS

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS

The track was real good. You could run the top and the bottom and then you got in the middle. I mean...
TERRY PHILLIPS

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very su...
MARTIN FILLER

You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

Ricky and I talked about it and designed a shop and put our offices in there. We got Brian Whitesell...
RICK HENDRICK

He had a good attitude all year long. He never got too high or too low. He stayed on an even keel. H...
HOWARD COPELAND

We were very good in the second half and moved the ball really well. It was an excellent performance...
SIMON DELAHUNTY

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

It's got the context of a very good architect [Renzo Piano, who designed the expansion] and an excellent museum. You couldn't ask for more.

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It's got the context of a very good architect [Renzo Piano, who designed the expansion] and an excellent museum. You couldn't ask for more.

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