Chinese Quote by James M. Cain

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our…

— Orhan Pamuk

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 find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.

— Jonathan Anderson

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

— Tim Cook

“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

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

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

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 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 don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

— Violet Trefusis

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors.…

— Jerry Saltz

I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every…

— Alexandre Desplat