Human race Quote by Robert T. Bakker

“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 believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the…

— Richard Fortey

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

— Roger Caras

“Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

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

Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in…

— Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

“You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits?”

— Ron Lizzi

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

“As cultural politics change, museums change with them.”

— Sharon Waxman