Emotional Quote by Hiro Murai

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

“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

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

— Antony Gormley

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

People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for…

— Eli Broad

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging…

— Jerry Saltz

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at…

— Bryan Stevenson

It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective.…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

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

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look…

— Tino Sehgal

I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work…

— Camille Henrot