Larry Ellison Quotes

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void.

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 love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent.

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

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

I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.

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.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

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

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

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

The Internet is a crazy archive of a lot of old everything. Paintings, drawings, old, new, and everything in between.