Art Quote by Ai Weiwei

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

— Ai Weiwei

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look…

— Mel Bochner

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

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

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art,…

— Eli Broad

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

— Tania Bruguera

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Bari Weiss

The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe…

— Thomas Heatherwick

Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged -…

— Diego Cortez

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in…

— Pablo Picasso

I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every…

— Alexandre Desplat