The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association… — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
[Photography was necessary to] make my place in the art-world: in order to do this, I had to make a picture, since… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
With acting, I'm taking somebody else's work and interpreting it. Whereas with music, it's organic. It's completely myself. Nobody else is really… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be… — Ken Done Copy Share Image
In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
My whole family is very art-based. My sister runs a gallery, my other sister works for PACE in New York, my other… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If I were a place, the area of South Bank, in London. Between the Hayward Gallery, National Theatre and all other activities,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side,… — Russell James Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished.… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
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