Art Quote by Simon Van Booy

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

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

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

— David Rockefeller

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

— Roger Caras

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home.…

— Gunter Brus

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

— Jean Nouvel

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

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

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

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become…

— Michelle Grabner

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

— Bill Jay