Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. Pablo Picasso
An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there. George Santayana
A museum…often induces the feeling that nothing could ever have been young. Walter Pater
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly impostors. 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
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal. G K Chesterton
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth. Lewis H Lapham