Art Quote by David Rockefeller

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

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that…

— Marvin L. Cohen

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible…

— Theaster Gates

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

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want…

— Kerry James Marshall

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part…

— Nick Cave

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

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the…

— Martin Filler

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already…

— John Hodgman

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

Well, intellectual importance is directly linked to financial value in the art world. I mean, thats the thing you really want - museum quality.…

— Grayson Perry