Artist Quote by Susan Sontag

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Memory acts at various levels: individual and family, social, and nation-state. Memory is not fixed: far from it, at every level memory is shifting,…

— Suzanne Keene

Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as…

— Marcel Proust

We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those,…

— Chris Hondros

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about…

— Kiki Smith

To me, pictures are about memory.

— Joe McNally

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

— Robert Smithson

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.

— Jake Barton

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over,…

— Jerry Saltz

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy.

— Randolph Scott

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