Argument Quote by Andrew O'Hagan

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

Living is like tearing through a museum.

— Audrey Hepburn

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and…

— Martin Filler

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

— Renzo Piano

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

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so…

— Italo Svevo

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works…

— Simon Van Booy

It's wonderful to see art in a museum, but it is institutionalised. I don't like the idea of the artwork as something that requires…

— Antony Gormley

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