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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, there's physicality.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.