Antiquity Quote by Friedrich Engels

“[The family] will be sent to a museum of antiquities so that it can rest next to the spinning wheel and the bronze axe,…

— Semen Iakovlevich Vol'fson

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

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

— Kerry James Marshall

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able…

— John Maynard Keynes

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but…

— Jerry Saltz

“who will tend the farm museums who will dust the day belongings? ”

— Michael Stipe

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

— Pablo Picasso

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make…

— Henry Beston

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which…

— D. H. Lawrence

Design and the urgency to preserve it - not as a museum relic, as a living experience. And for me, something that lives alongside…

— Waris Ahluwalia

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and…

— Martin Filler

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

— Robert Smithson