Exhibitions Quotes

• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Christian, Education

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.140

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• You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.

  Roger Federer

  Crazy, Peaking, Tournaments

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• When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Opportunity, Kind

  Source: www.hockeycanada.ca

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Book, Cameras

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• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Drama, Character

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• Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Limits, Asking

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

  Thelma Golden

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• I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

  Claude Monet

  Long, People, Taste

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

  Richard Serra

  Thinking, People, Different

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• Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Determination, Memories

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Being Outside", p. 273, 1985.

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• I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Wall, People, Use

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• I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Children, Grandmother, Color

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• I have to display what I have seen to people.

  Ala Bashir

  People, Display

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

  Tracey Emin

  Would Be, My One And Only, Decided

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Eggs, Necks

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• I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

  Georg Baselitz

  Upside Down, Surface

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• If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

  John Bellamy Foster

  Two, Body, Remembered

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• Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Inspiration, Different, Way

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I have always thought that it would be nice to not complete the exhibition in one place and close off the others as a result. Exhibitions should connect with various locations and promote exchange and interaction.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Nice, Would Be, Location

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Awards, Who I Am, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.

  Ed Parker

  Art, Forever, Mind

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• Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Memories, Flower

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• An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works of art themselves. It clicks when an exhibition feels like it has answered some questions, and raised even more.

  Thelma Golden

  Art, Way, Curator

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