Artist Quote by Cynthia Freeland

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

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and…

— Orhan Pamuk

“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We…

— Orhan Pamuk

I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you…

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Roger Caras

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other.…

— Tino Sehgal

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

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than…

— Jerry Saltz

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

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role…

— Richard Fortey

“As cultural politics change, museums change with them.”

— Sharon Waxman

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