Gallery Quotes

• A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, World, Surface

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

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• As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

  Thom Gunn

  Art, Thinking, Looks

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• The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

  Yoko Ono

  Nice, Pay, Shows

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• I love to be in front of big galleries

  Natalie

  Bigs, Fronts

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fake People, Reality, History

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 88, 1856.

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• You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

  Robertson Davies

  Truth, Forever, Want

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• Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

  Randolph Bourne

  Lying, Book, Heaven

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1969). “History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays”, p.43, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

  Groucho Marx

  Shooting, Want, Ends

  "Fictional character: Wagstaff". "Horse Feathers", 1932.

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

  Mark Gatiss

  Portraits

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  Carla Bley

  Play, World, Jazz

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• Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

  Ronnie Wood

  Nice, Supportive, Tonight

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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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• 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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• I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, World, Arena

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Art, New York, Thinking

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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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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• I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Thinking, Rope

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• Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fire, Doors, Painting

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