Gallery Quotes · Page 3

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

— Yoko Ono

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

— Nas

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

— Ai Weiwei

I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side…

— Wade Guyton

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

— Bill Jay

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

— Marina Abramovic

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

— Groucho Marx

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

— William Cowper

Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to…

— Amy Webb

I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art…

— Banksy

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find…

— Vivienne Westwood

A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends…

— Russell Smith

If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs…

— Kalup Linzy

Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in…

— Albert C. Barnes

My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for…

— Robert Barry

“Make a good gallery! Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide,…

— Kay WalkingStick

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think…

— Chase Jarvis

I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the…

— Maurizio Cattelan

If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time…

— Debbie Harry

I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture…

— Barbara Kruger

I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice…

— Terry Teachout

Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got…

— Warren MacKenzie

The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

— Paula Rego

The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

— Douglas Harding

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

— Howard Hodgkin

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

— Zaha Hadid

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding

— Daniel Libeskind

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

— William Congreve

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

— Scott McClanahan

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I have an exclusive gallery that takes care of the all of my artworks. I want to stay focused on the art…

— Invader

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then…

— Jerry Saltz

Hilda Reiss was the head of the Everyday Art Gallery. Hilda Reiss came from Germany, had trained at the original Bauhaus in…

— Warren MacKenzie

Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to…

— Cory Trepanier

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to…

— Jerry Saltz