Abstract Quote by Robert Smithson

Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged -…

— Diego Cortez

“Museums hold collections in trust for future generations. It is our responsibility to see that these objects—representing the cultural heritage of more than 8,000…

— Holly Witchey

The moment you introduce difference into a museum, then the privileged space is contested, and under the most ideal circumstances what all artists want…

— Kerry James Marshall

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

Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which…

— D. H. Lawrence

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire…

— Edgar Degas

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

— Orhan Pamuk

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible…

— Theaster Gates

Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were…

— Kerry James Marshall

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

— Charlotte Moss

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

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

— Richard Meier