“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.”
J. B. Priestley
“The modern museum is much more flexible, open and transparent. There's a lightness here that is different than in ancient museums.”
Richard Meier
“Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.”
Helen Keller
“I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.”
Stephen Wright
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
Pablo Picasso
“Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.”
Libby Gelman-Waxner
“Museums are the cemeteries of the arts”
Alphonse de Lamartine
