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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

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

— David Rockefeller

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

— Yogi Berra

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about…

— Eric Drooker

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

— Chance The Rapper

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

— Robert Smithson

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

— Daphne Guinness

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home.…

— Gunter Brus

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

— Kathy Acker