Gallery Quotes - Page 11

• Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.

  David LaChapelle

  Museums, Ideas, Magazines

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• Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

  Han Suyin

  Art, Art Galleries, Moralist

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• My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum.

  Marc Chagall

  June, July, Judgement

  Letter to A. N. Benois, 1914.

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• Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Yellow, Looks, Muse

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.179, Delphi Classics

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• Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to do this for you , or you put your time and effort into it. Unless people see the great art you're making, they'll never buy it.

  Cory Trepanier

  Art, People, Effort

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• At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

  Jean Chretien

  Italian, Dollars, Boards

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

  Catherine Stock

  People, Small Villages, Left Alone

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• I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.

  James Nares

  Art, Home, Museums

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• It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.

  Milton Resnick

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

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• Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.

  Alexander Stoddart

  Dirty, Bananas, Bunch

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• The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

  Scott Kahn

  Art, Luxury, Atmosphere

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• Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.

  Catherine Yass

  People, Different, Needs

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• I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Wall, Doe

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.

  John Carroll

  Hero, Winning, Boys

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• Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mirrors, Deception, Different

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• You can talk about strategy all you want, but what really matters is resilience. On the last nine holes of the Masters or the Open, there's going to come at least one point when you want to throw yourself in the nearest trash can and disappear. You know you can't hide. It's like you're walking down the fairway naked. The gallery knows what you've done, every other player knows and worst of all, you know. That's when you find out if you're a real competitor.

  Hale Irwin

  Real, Golf, Player

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• I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Appreciation, Art, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.22, Random House

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• It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Challenges, Lines

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• I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

  Joan Larkin

  Art, Years, Stuff

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

  James Martineau

  Running, Forever, Soul

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.147

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family spirit has passed on its way to us, we should probably become fatalists in face of the apparently overwhelming evidence that there is nothing in us that has not come to us from, or at least through, the Family. Family portrait galleries are a striking confirmation of the persistence of characteristics which ultimately govern the fortunes of successive generations.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Persistence, Long, Parent

  Helen Bosanquet, Bernard Bosanquet (1996). “Helen and Bernard Bosanquet: Works on economics & social welfare: the philosophy of the state and the practice of welfare”

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• I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

  Drew Barrymore

  Shopping, Style, Sun

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• If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities, I'm never bored. I would also say New York for the breathtaking skyline formed by the buildings and the fast pace of the city, whatever the time of day.

  Robert Pattinson

  New York, Cities, Bored

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• I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

  Ashley Jensen

  Museums, Smell, Church

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