“An object in a mu­se­um exhibition case […] must live as un­na­tur­al an existence as an animal in the zoo. The object dies in the mu­se­um – from suffocation and the glare of the public – while the pri­va­te possession gives the owner the desire and need to touch. Like the little child who reaches out after the thing it names, the ardent col­lect­or returns to the object, in a harmonic interaction between hand and eye, the life giving touch of its creator. The enemy of the col­lect­or is the mu­se­um keeper. The ideal thing would be for mu­se­ums to be looted ev­ery fifteen years and for their col­lec­tions to be thrown out onto the market again…”