Art Quote by Eli Broad

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

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

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic…

— Richard Meier

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

— Bari Weiss

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

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

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close

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

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

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

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the…

— Richard Fortey