Art Quote by Grayson Perry

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than…

— Jerry Saltz

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

— Kevin Spacey

Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with…

— Arne Glimcher

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

... what is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at…

— Gabriel Orozco

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The…

— Donald Sultan

The arts are valuable because they increase our sense of what it means to be human, not because of any specific skill or ability…

— Naomi Alderman

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

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art,…

— Eli Broad

What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the…

— Martin Filler