Gallery Quotes

• The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

  Yoko Ono

  Nice, Pay, Shows

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• I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

  Lucian Freud

  Ideas, Doctors, Use

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• We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Civilization, Challenges, World

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• The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires

  Banksy

  Art, Real, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.

  Albert C. Barnes

  Appreciation, Art, Effort

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• How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

  Janet Fitch

  Body, Becoming, Scar

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• As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

  Thom Gunn

  Art, Thinking, Looks

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fake People, Reality, History

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 88, 1856.

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• I love to be in front of big galleries

  Natalie

  Bigs, Fronts

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• A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, World, Surface

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

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• You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

  Robertson Davies

  Truth, Forever, Want

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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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• When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age, for we all had nothing to lose and a vision to gain. Today it is not quite the same. It is a time of tons of verbiage, activity, consumption. Which condition is better for the world at large I shall not venture to discuss. But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. We must all hope we find them.

  Mark Rothko

  Lonely, Art, Men

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• Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

  Randolph Bourne

  Lying, Book, Heaven

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1969). “History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays”, p.43, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  Carla Bley

  Play, World, Jazz

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• The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

  Humphry Davy

  Art, Paris, Saws

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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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• How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

  Groucho Marx

  Shooting, Want, Ends

  "Fictional character: Wagstaff". "Horse Feathers", 1932.

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• Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

  Ronnie Wood

  Nice, Supportive, Tonight

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• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Art, New York, Thinking

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fire, Doors, Painting

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• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

  William Congreve

  Tea, Scandal, Ancient

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 1

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• 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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• I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Thinking, Rope

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