Back Quote by Tino Sehgal

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they…

— Jerry Saltz

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

— Gerhard Richter

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

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together.…

— Hiro Murai

I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you…

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind,…

— Jerry Saltz

“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

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

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

— S. Kelley Harrell

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

— Kerry James Marshall