Gallery Quotes - Page 5

• Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Art, Writing, Should Have

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• Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Important, Three, Journalism

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Man of Letters" (1841).

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• In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

  Will Cotton

  Expectations, Atmosphere, Elitist

  "Cotton Candy Man". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Museums, Atmosphere

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• ... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very last row of the top gallery. They have given more than they can afford to come. In the most self-effacing spirit of fellowship they are listening to catch every word, watching to miss no slightest gesture or expression. To save his life the actor cannot help feeling these nearest and dearest. He cannot help wishing to do his best for them. He cannot help loving them best of all.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Girl, Men, Boys

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• When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

  John Logan

  Lonely, Art, Parent

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books

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• Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Beautiful, Real, Stupid

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• The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they remain the same paintings, ever faithful, ever convincing. To a marvelous extent they carry their own light within. For their truth is not that of a perfect replica, it is the truth of art.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Truth, Sunshine

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• And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

  Tim Winton

  Space, Worry, Goes On

  Tim Winton (2013). “Cloudstreet: A Novel”, p.2, Macmillan

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• Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Blood, Color, Focus

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• My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  Sam Palladio

  Running, Art, Interesting

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• To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Country, Art

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

  Nas

  Art, Skins, Painting

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• As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

  Neville Bonner

  Leadership, Boys, Race

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• Men who are offenders of street harassment and women who experience street harassment can walk by and feel something about it, because it's out there in the environment where the harassment actually happens. So it's a lot more powerful than an oil painting that's stuck in a gallery or under my bed or in my studio where only a couple of eyes are going to see it, as opposed to it being in an environment where it could possibly effect a change.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Couple, Powerful, Eye

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in Germany, and her training inspired her to think of anything that she liked as art.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Thinking, Everyday

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.

  Jack White

  Self, Waiting, Collaboration

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• Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to dorm rooms and dentists' lounges.

  Ari Shapiro

  Artist, Garden, Water Lily

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St. Ives for about four years before returning to Japan to start his own pottery. He had exhibitions in London, and if these exhibitions didn't sell out, the galleries were instructed to send the remaining work down to the Leach Pottery, where they would go into the showroom for sale. If Bernard saw one that hadn't sold that he really admired, then he would take it (he would buy it), and it would go into the house.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Japan, Years, Interesting

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got a job at the University of Minnesota, which was very fortunate because it was a part-time job and that gave us a great deal of time in our studio to work together and to make the pots we wanted to make.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Jobs, Philosophy, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cake

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• The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

  JR

  Motivation, Nice, Book

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• Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty [Martin] Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant [to the] director was to make the collection available to interested people.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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