Any Quote by Christo

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and…

— Jerry Saltz

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic…

— Frank Gehry

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

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but…

— Jerry Saltz

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 wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

— Mario Botta

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out…

— Minoru Yamasaki

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every…

— Paul Goldberger

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with…

— Jan Morris

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

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

— Hans Haacke

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