Alive Quote by Eric Drooker

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

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am…

— Aleksandra Mir

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

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

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

— David Rockefeller

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

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

— Banksy

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

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

— Bruce Nauman

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of…

— Frank Gehry

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they…

— Jerry Saltz

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