Central nervous system Quote by George Lois

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind,…

— Jerry Saltz

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

A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art.

— Mario Botta

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

— Robert Smithson

“The integrative powers of the brain for the sensations that come from handling objects spills out into all other domains of intelligence.”

— Edward O. Wilson

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to…

— Matt Haig

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire…

— Edgar Degas

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

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure…

— Benjamin Carson

“When we gaze at the world, we do not fathom the many layers of apparatus that underlie our unified visual experience, until neurological disease…

— Steven Pinker