Richard Meier Quotes

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

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 do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

Museums, I love museums.

Temperament is destiny not only for politicians but for their spouses as well.

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.

The Passover experience is an incredibly pedagogic one.

I think that's the magic of any part - unravelling the mystery of what kind of person your guy is based on the words he says and the actions that he does.

A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

Character is the plot in many ways

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Our characters are the result of our conduct.

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.