Artist Quote by Michel Leiris

“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 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

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

— Mark Stevens

I used to say that stores were like museums. I appreciated it, I could look at it, but it really wasn't for me and…

— Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

— Gerhard Richter

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 Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

— Prince Philip

I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you…

— Kehinde Wiley

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning.…

— Chuck Palahniuk