Museums Should Not Be Free Quotes

#1. Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

Simon Hoggart

#2. We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [ ... ] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Muhammad Yunus

#3. You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Jessa Crispin

#4. The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

Friedrich Engels

#5. I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

Sonia Sotomayor

#6. I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.

Lisa Loeb

#7. The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

Robert Barry

#8. My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

David Blaine

#9. The theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

Eva Le Gallienne

#10. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ...

Damien Hirst