Berlin Quote by Georg Baselitz

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

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

— Elliott Erwitt

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role…

— Richard Fortey

In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me…

— Georg Baselitz

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

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

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They…

— Hans Haacke

Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact…

— Warren MacKenzie

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions -…

— Thomas P. Campbell

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

— 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