Artist Quote by Maira Kalman

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 museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that…

— Marvin L. Cohen

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

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

“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

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

— Alan King

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the…

— Neil MacGregor

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

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they…

— Jerry Saltz

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

— Abbi Jacobson

The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before.…

— Wayne White