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

  Mark Gatiss

  Portraits

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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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