Exhibitions Quotes · Page 9

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality…

— Clarence Day

Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory…

— Harold Rosenberg

I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked,…

— Chath Piersath

I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

— Oksana Baiul

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign…

— David Nicholls

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

— Fay Godwin

I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions…

— Piper Kerman

[Walter White] had keep [people] waiting while you got the impression that he was terribly busy with calls to Washington. I've seen…

— Ella Baker

I used to think of exhibitions as being practice but they are not.

— Jimmy White

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

— Alistair Cooke

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly…

— Marc Newson

I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.

— Frederick Salomon Perls

Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition…

— Semir Zeki

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see…

— Jerry Saltz