"The present stage of creating exhibition centers / museum branches represents one of the possible ways of humanizing the natural and inevitable process of globalization."
(Prof. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)

"In order to make collaboration between museums to be successful, you have to be selfish and generous"
(Lori Gross, director of the Museum Loan Network)

"I am not very happy with the word Collection Mobility. It suggests constant movement of works of art. That's not the essence."
(Ronald de Leeuw, general director Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

"We need to find new arenas to show objects."
(Kristian Berg)

"Much to my regret collection mobility usually evolves out of practical or financial motives. A museum which is forced to close down due to renovation (Rijksmuseum) or which is in need of a major financial injection (Hermitage / Guggenheim). Once these motives cease to exist, collection mobility bites the dust."
(Max Meijer, director Arnhem Museum of Modern Art)

"If Malraux proposed a museum without walls, Guggenheim Bilbao presents a museum that is hardly anything else. The art itself becomes a sideshow in the overall museum experience which must be fun."
(from: Introductory Statement of conference Learning from the Guggenheim Bilbao - Five Years After. Nevada Museum of Art, April 22-24 2004)

"In the circle of politicians and policy makers concerned about Europe and culture the buzz word is mobility."
(Linda Bouws, director Felix Meritis)

"Bussinesslike museum people don't have many problems with circulation of objects. It's the artistic museum people who are possessive."
(Hugo Bongers)

"When I start talking about professionalisation of museums some people instantly shout "commercialism!" That is a Pavlov reaction which kills innovation."
(Boris Dittrich, chairman of the parliamentary party D66)

"After Bilbao, every city has dreamed of its own Guggenheim effect."
(from: Introductory Statement of conference Learning from the Guggenheim Bilbao - Five Years After. Nevada Museum of Art, April 22-24 2004)

"Curators don't own collections. Their job is to provide access."
(Julian Spalding)

"Long term loans is the most effective instrument to sustainable increase the accessibility and coherence of museum collections in Europe."
(Chris Buijs, OCW )

"Art is not meant to travel. Actually collection mobility is an inappropriate act. We should keep that in mind."
(Ronald de Leeuw)

"The public right is higher than the scolarly right in storage."
(Julian Spalding)

"The greater the access the less important it is who owns an object."
(John Leighton)

"Reciprocity is the starting point for collection mobility."
(Harry Tupan)

"Cultural policy is gaining importance in Europe."
(Gotfried Wagner, ECF)

"In the future we perhaps do not need national collections in Sweden. A major shift towards the regions is being made."
(Kristian Berg)

"A museum is like an iceberg. Most visitors come to see the temporary exhibitions. Only a few want to see our own collection. Our own collection though is in stock for the greater part , wheras it requires most attention of the museum staff."
(Sjarel Ex)

"Curators and critics hardly have any travelling budget or foreign network."
(Gitta Luiten, Mondriaan Foundation)

"There is a tendency in museums to look at the impossibilities and not to look at the solutions."
(Kristian Berg)