Budgets Quote by Thomas P. Campbell

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art,…

— Eli Broad

In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me…

— Georg Baselitz

Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role…

— Richard Fortey

Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it…

— Mario Draghi

The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to…

— Ai Weiwei

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors.…

— Jerry Saltz

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

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

— Wendy Beckett

Europe's budget plans are better designed: countries from France to Greece are raising retirement ages; others, from Britain to Germany, have created new organisations…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever…

— David Cameron

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state…

— Andrzej Wajda

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

— Priti Patel