Art Quote by Frank Gehry

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

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

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

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other.…

— Tino Sehgal

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

The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that…

— Marvin L. Cohen

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors.…

— Jerry Saltz

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

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the…

— Neil MacGregor

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio…

— David Adjaye

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They…

— Jake Barton

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already…

— John Hodgman