Gallery Quotes - Page 11

• I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, Want, Shows

  "Venice: Lena Dunham and Laurie Simmons Hope 'My Art' Influences a Generation". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 3, 2016.

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• The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

  Oliver $

  Fighting, Years, Together

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• That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

  Nan Goldin

  Wall, Ideas, Working Together

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

  Nan Goldin

  People, Wigs, Radio

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• The first exhibition that I used bright colours in painting the room was at a gallery in Paris, and there were seven rooms in the gallery. It was very nice gallery, not very big rooms, around the courtyard, it was a very French space. So I painted each room in different colour. When people came to the exhibition, I saw they came with a smile. Everybody smiles - this is something I never saw in my work before.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Nice, Paris, Space

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

  Patrick Seguin

  Artist, Good Relationship, Want

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.

  Patrick Seguin

  Running, Morning, Sleep

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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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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• I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going to be able to join one of the dwindling number of commercial galleries, I started an ARI called the Basement Project which ran for three years. Things came a little at a time and all of a sudden it's 20 years later and I'm still making art, which is really all I ever wanted to do.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Art, Years, Numbers

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, "That's a huge idea." Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  Val Kilmer

  Art, Museums, Average

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.

  Robert Barry

  Gone, Studios, Fortunate

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Predator, Photographer

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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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• The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And if you're doing fine art, if you're doing it for a gallery or a museum, it's so sterilized. It's such an antiseptic environment.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Museums, Clients

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Silence, Kenya, Stones

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

  Kesh

  Real, Important, Use

  Source: www.elle.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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• After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, School, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.

  Leila Fadel

  Dream, Country, Agency

  "Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

  Raf Simons

  Example, Shows, Ready

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true.

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Korea, Practice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.

  Erro

  Men, Artist, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

  Garry Winogrand

  Book, Thinking, Looks

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• In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.

  Michael Hyatt

  Running, Art, Father

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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