Archaeologists Quote by D. H. Lawrence

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

— D. H. Lawrence

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 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

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were…

— Kerry James Marshall

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

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

— Robert Smithson

Really it becomes a question of architecture. How do you move people through a space and allow them to have an experience? I, probably…

— David Salle

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

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

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

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

— Antony Gormley

“Curators and archivists at local museums can play a significant role in bringing this difficult history home, a commitment that is sometimes sparked by…

— Paulette Regan