Exhibitions Quotes

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I have to display what I have seen to people.

— Ala Bashir

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

— Jean Cocteau

Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions

— Nancy Astor

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

— Georg Baselitz

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

— Thelma Golden

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

— Jimmy White

I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.

— Frederick Salomon Perls

At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

— Bill Jay

People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich -…

— Frida Kahlo

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of…

— Ma Jian

When I was 10, I was playing golf exhibitions with Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen.

— Jackie Coogan

So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I…

— Wangechi Mutu

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art…

— Dennis Oppenheim

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

— Fay Godwin

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

— Alistair Cooke

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life…

— Carl Hubbell

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded…

— Bar Paly

I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your…

— Kenny Scharf

If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and…

— Harry Vardon

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to…

— Eli Broad

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So…

— Chris Ofili

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a…

— Shan Sa

I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Piper Kerman

The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the…

— Nuno Oliveira

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

— Semir Zeki

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of…

— Richard Fortey

Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its…

— Northrop Frye

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that…

— Billy Childish

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No…

— Corra May Harris

At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created…

— Stefan Sagmeister

Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…

— Tertullian

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

— Chath Piersath

We play Snooker Legends exhibitions and there is never a spare ticket.

— Jimmy White

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

— Jamie Hewlett

“Dreams are the museum for artists.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.

— Vladimir Putin

You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.

— Alva Noto