Art Quote by Wendy Beckett

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

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They…

— Hans Haacke

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm,…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

— Violet Trefusis

“Films featuring museums are on the whole, not serious ones. They are mostly comedies, mild thrillers, romances, and horror movies, with a few disaster…

— Suzanne Keene

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

— Muhammad Yunus

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

— Sonia Rykiel

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

I love museums. But I don't want to live in one.

— Tim Cook

The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't…

— Elliott Erwitt