Collections Quote by Eli Broad

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

— Hans Haacke

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

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

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

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

“In fact, if a museum were filled with all of the world's stolen artworks, it would be the most impressive collection ever created. It…

— Ulrich Boser

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at…

— Bryan Stevenson

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

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art,…

— Eli Broad

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

— Theaster Gates

They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

— Michael Heizer