Exhibitions Quotes

• 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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• When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Opportunity, Kind

  Source: www.hockeycanada.ca

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• Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Limits, Asking

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

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• A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

  Fay Godwin

  Photography, Book, Cameras

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• I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste.

  Claude Monet

  Long, People, Taste

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

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• I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

  Thelma Golden

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• I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

  Richard Serra

  Thinking, People, Different

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• I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Children, Grandmother, Color

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• I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Wall, People, Use

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• I have to display what I have seen to people.

  Ala Bashir

  People, Display

  "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

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• I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

  Tracey Emin

  Would Be, My One And Only, Decided

  "Show and tell". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2001.

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• Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Memories, Flower

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• 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 real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Drama, Character

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  Carl Hubbell

  Stars, Winning, Player

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• I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Couple, Thinking

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• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Parent, Reason Why

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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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