Art Quote by Ai Weiwei

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Ai Weiwei

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes…

— J. G. Ballard

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

— Tania Bruguera

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am…

— Aleksandra Mir

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't…

— Elliott Erwitt

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to…

— Ai Weiwei

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

— Bari Weiss

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible…

— Theaster Gates

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

— Wade Guyton