Alive Quote by David Rockefeller

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of…

— Eric Drooker

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the…

— Marshall McLuhan

“You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.”

— Georgi Gospodinov

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about…

— Eric Drooker

Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged -…

— Diego Cortez

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

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

What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I…

— Eric Drooker

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

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

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

— Robert Smithson