Gallery Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

  Paula Rego

  Facts, Thanks, Selling

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• It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3)... there is a gallery for everybody.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Strong, Rejection, Important

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• Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Winning, Men, Play

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (2003). “Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues”

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• My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

  Cary Elwes

  Father, Real, Kids

  "Cary Elwes: Battle Of Wits". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.

  Ai Weiwei

  Stories, Each Day, Television

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.tribalartasia.com

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• In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Years, Museums

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Host, Copies, Originals

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2013). “The Old Regime and the Revolution: The controversial bestselling guide to the origins of the French Revolution”, p.100, Harriman House Limited

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• Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

  Luc Tuymans

  Art, Wall, Politics

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• I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the successful art galleries compared to the size of galleries now - there was no such thing as the Gagosian Gallery or Pace Gallery. But it was a time when magazines were a vital part of American life, and Esquire gave me a free pass to every world - I could get to the art world, the theater world, the movie world. It allowed you to roam through the cultural life of New York City.

  Robert Benton

  Art, New York, Successful

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Successful, Long

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.

  Robert Barry

  Running, Home, Video

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Book, Together, Library

  Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova, December 25, 1888.

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• One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is that I try to make things that don't read as art until they're in a gallery.

  Jack Pierson

  Art, Struggle, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Dream, Art, Saving Up

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• Museums collect what's important in their respective countries. In Berlin's National Gallery, however, this isn't the case. They're interested neither in me nor the other usual suspects. It's simply a German reality.

  Georg Baselitz

  Country, Reality, Museums

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• In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

  Eyvind Kang

  Art, Wall, Expression

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the other day. These people did two, even three Documentas or Venice Biennales over the course of a decade without any fuss. They would just treat it as any of their other engagements, with the same level of dignity and commitment they'd reserve for a one-day event in a small gallery on the Austrian mountains.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Book, Commitment, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Galleries are nice to me. I sign a lot of autographs.

  Vijay Singh

  Nice, Autographs

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• I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.

  Stephen Beal

  Thinking, Different, Looks

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.

  Andy Barrie

  Dog, Queens, Home

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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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• To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Race, Rome

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.366

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• Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

  Adamo Macri

  Art, Museums, People

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