Tino Sehgal Quotes

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

I'm in a museum. I'm a relic.

Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and both have the largest economic powers in the world exactly 213 miles to the south by car.

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school, they say. Leaving aside the poverty of imagination and aspiration implicit in such a sentiment, it also ignores hardheaded economic reality: Britain, and London in particular, makes big money from culture.

The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

As one of the largest states in the country, Florida's vibrant diversity is a key part of our nation's story.

We must link Azamgarh to art and culture and not with terrorism and crime.

We have a unique culture.

All of our lives are enriched by our culture, from blockbuster films, best-selling video games, independent music, and internationally-renowned museums and art collections, to theatre, opera, ballet, literary festivals and performance poetry.

It is really important for me to help my culture.

The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.

We need to have a view that culture has a value in itself, not just in terms of a social and economic value.

The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

The British Museum is great for seeing how excellent we were at stealing things.

Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.