I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

- Eli Broad

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

- Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

- Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

- Hannah Kent

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

- Hamish Bowles

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

- George Lois

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.

- Francisco Costa

Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

- F. Sionil Jose

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

- Elizabeth Perkins

I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.

- Elliott Erwitt

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

- Andy Warhol

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

- Eli Broad

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.

- Eli Broad

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

- Doug Aitken

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

- Danny Meyer

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

- Danny Meyer

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

- Damien Hirst

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

- Bill Dedman

One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States.

- Bill Bryson