Business Quote by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative…

— Robert Hewison

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite…

— Eli Broad

Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

— Roshni Nadar

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

— Jerry Saltz

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

— David Lammy

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to…

— Eli Broad

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to…

— Ai Weiwei

“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve…

— Robert T. Bakker

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

Many of us will endure a lifetime following others. Institutionalisation suits many but not all. Some of us thrive beyond those boundaries.

— Ben Fogle

The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious,…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius