Believe Quote by Richard Fortey

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative…

— Robert Hewison

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They…

— Hans Haacke

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

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other.…

— Tino Sehgal

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

“We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve…

— Robert T. Bakker

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

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

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

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

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