Art Quote by Albert C. Barnes

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors.…

— Jerry Saltz

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They…

— Jake Barton

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

— Zaha Hadid

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

— Kerry James Marshall

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire…

— Edgar Degas

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the…

— Martin Filler

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,…

— Thomas P. Campbell

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

— Roger Caras