Acquire Quote by Eli Broad

In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me…

— Georg Baselitz

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

I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week…

— Grayson Perry

When museums are left with so little money that their future is in the hands of private donors, then they are unable to develop…

— Olafur Eliasson

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Bari Weiss

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with…

— Arne Glimcher

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with…

— Banksy

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

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

— Norman Braman

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The…

— Donald Sultan

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