Gallery Quotes - Page 2

• Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Art, Dark, Men

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• Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Wall, Ideas

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Art, Gun

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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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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Stars, Fame, Mascots

  Jean-Michel Basquiat, Civico museo Revoltella (1999). “Basquiat”, Walker Art Center

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• As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

  KAWS

  Thinking, Opinion, Outlets

  Art Crimes Interview, www.graffiti.org. 1996.

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• The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Estates, Realms, Fourth

  "On Hallam's Constitutional History" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.

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• When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in Malmö, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe l’oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from ‘Black and the Red III’ and continued that on the wall.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Space, Black

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Eye, Cutting

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.21, Penguin

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• The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self Esteem, Men, Average

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

  Mark Gatiss

  Portraits

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• The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

  James Franco

  Art, Guy, Firsts

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, New York, Thinking

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• I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.

  Sara Gilbert

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.

  J. Carter Brown

  Triumph, East, Association

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• An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it

  Matthew Barney

  Art, New York, Interesting

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• I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Soothing, Copies, Prose

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• At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

  Andrew Wyeth

  New York, Age, Firsts

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Loneliness, Real Friends

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

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• The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Government, May, Spirals

  "You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.

  Kalup Linzy

  Museums, People, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.

  Wendy Beckett

  Reading, Museums, Bookstores

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• There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Eagles, People

  Source: query.nytimes.com

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• The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

  Charles Tart

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

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