Art Quote by Roger Caras

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

— Roger Caras

“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

“Curators and archivists at local museums can play a significant role in bringing this difficult history home, a commitment that is sometimes sparked by…

— Paulette Regan

“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 think museums are dead boring. I don't like most of the pictures on their walls. With modern pieces you never know if it's…

— Jutta Profijt

“Each of us is a museum that opens for business the moment we’re born, with memory the sole curator.”

— Kate Bolick

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

“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

“The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.”

— Richard Fortey

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

— S. Kelley Harrell

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

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and…

— Martin Filler