Anywhere Quote by Brian Selznick

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

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

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They…

— Hans Haacke

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

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

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

— James Lileks

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the…

— Richard Fortey

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

— Prince Philip

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

I think people have to be given - or take - the permission to say that something is nothing. Just because it's in a…

— David Salle