Anchor Quote by Gladys Berejiklian

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

— Robert Smithson

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

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts

— Alphonse De Lamartine

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

— Elvis Mitchell

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

— Abbi Jacobson

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

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic…

— Frank Gehry

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

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

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part…

— Nick Cave

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture…

— Thomas Heatherwick

You don't just find an empty museum and say, "I should do something here." I was looking for another kind of venue or exhibition…

— Pierre Huyghe