Exhibitions Quotes - Page 2

• Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, People, Royal

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  America, United States, Bankruptcy

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• I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Play, Decision

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• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  Oksana Baiul

  Competition, Feelings, Wish

  The Golden Skate Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

  Emily Post

  Women, Believe, Worry

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

  Childe Hassam

  Effort, Shows, Collections

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• Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

  Marc Newson

  Europe, Magazines, Stuff

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• It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

  Claude Monet

  Ideas, Numbers, Groups

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

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• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Passion, Technology

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• My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the world - not the whole world which couldn't care less, but my private world, which is my country, Canada.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Country, Zest, Careers

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• Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Rooms, Congress, Committees

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings”

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• As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

  Wade Guyton

  Wall, Thinking, Challenges

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• Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

  Henry Moore

  Beautiful, Art, Air

  Henry Moore, David Sylvester, Alan Bowness (1986). “Henry Moore: Sculpture 1949-54”, Lund Humphries Publishers

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• Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, World

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Independent

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• Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Art, Collaboration, Different

  Source: u-in-u.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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• It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Strong, Artist, Competition

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• I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."

  Farah Diba

  Art, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.

  Semir Zeki

  Distance, Should, Come Up

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• People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything.

  Frida Kahlo

  War, People, Want

  "Frida by Frida: Selection of Letters and Texts".

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• Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

  Clarence Day

  Elephants, Suffering, Quality

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important

  Issey Miyake

  Thinking, Museums, Clothes

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• The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Mediocrity, Bazaars, Useless

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• I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Thinking, Boxing

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