Art Galleries Quotes - Page 2

• In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

  Mel Bochner

  Photography, Art, Looks

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• Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people.

  Ken Done

  Art, Eye, People

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• I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, World, Arena

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

  Lawren Harris

  Country, Art, Real

  "The best of the Group of Seven".

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• Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Art, Writing, Should Have

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• I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

  James McAvoy

  Art, Guy, Modern

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• In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of Jesus in chocolate. So, the Archbishop of New York was very upset. He said, 'It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.'

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Art, Atheist

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  When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

  Banksy

  Art, Tourists, Cabinets

  "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

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• I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art should only be kept for art galleries and doesn't have a role in public life, I think that's too narrow.

  Ken Done

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!

  Michael Jackson

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 14, 2013

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• I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Art, Air, People

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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Block

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• My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  Sam Palladio

  Running, Art, Interesting

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• If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

  John Waters

  Art, Trying, World

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

  Joan Larkin

  Art, Years, Stuff

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.

  Russell James

  Dream, Art, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.

  Kesh

  Art, Growing Up, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

  Michael Huffington

  Art, Church Service, Long

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, School, Winning

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• I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show in an art gallery I probably wouldn't really make very much sculpture. But I've had the opportunity to show in big spaces, so I want to fill up that space in the same way you might want to fill up a page.

  David Shrigley

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

  Tim Hetherington

  Art, Different, World

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

  Mat McNerney

  Art, Bars, Want

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.

  Emma Donoghue

  Art, Writing, Smell

  "The Keeper of Room". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Dream, Art, Children

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Sometime when I was in my mid-twenties I noticed, "Hey, even I don't go into too many art galleries. Why? Because I don't like the vibe in them. If even I'm not going into galleries, then who goes into art galleries in the first place?" It's just a certain, very narrow percentage of the population.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Twenties, Population

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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