Dave Barry Quotes

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.

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

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.

My mum is a big collector of art.

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

An art book is a museum without walls.

I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

At our house, my father loved the arts. Among his favorite things was 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art Album of Miniatures' - a box set of small books on different art periods. I'd go into the living room at night and sit on the arm of his chair as he studied the images.

There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.