Been Quote by David Chipperfield

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,…

— David Chipperfield

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Mario Botta

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

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

— Mark Stevens

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 reason these paintings are destined for New York is not because I am disappointed about a lack of German interest, but because MoMA…

— Gerhard Richter

“Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by Velma Kimbell,…

— Martin Filler

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

The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it…

— Martin Filler

“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve…

— Robert T. Bakker

Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the…

— Georg Baselitz