Quote by Pablo Picasso
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

Other quotes by Pablo Picasso

If there were only one truth, you couldnt paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
Truth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Museums, Galleries
category

Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroes knickers or Laurence Oliviers jockstrap they would flock to it. – Jonathan Miller

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. – Robert Hewison

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. – Jean Cocteau

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. – Lewis H. Lapham

Random Quotes

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the brides attendants. – Vera Wang

Category:
respect

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? – Ingrid Newkirk

Category:
Society

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. – Bobby McFerrin

Category:
Learning

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Speaking