Sonia Rykiel Quotes

I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every city has a great museum.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

I'm a huge art buff.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

Museums, free libraries, and art galleries have this in common: that they are each expected to fulfill two purposes which are somewhat incongruous, and require to be pursued by different methods and with different appliances. Each of these institutions is expected to minister to the wants both of trained students and of the untrained and ignorant public; and the demands of these two classes of persons are so diverse that they must be provided for separately

I love going to museums, especially the Met, because there's always room for discovery, or the Neue Galerie. It's a great jewel box.

I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

I go to museums all the time.

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

What does culture mean? It's not a physical thing. I love a museum, but that, for me, doesn't make you a better person.

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed to it. There were no museums that had great artists in them.

My wife is the expert, but I like art particularly. I like Van Gogh.

I love the Prado in Madrid. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is also great.

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

Rituals are important.