Gallery Quotes

227 quotes by 174 authors

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting… — Ayn Rand
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by… — Julia Gregson
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the… — Francesca Lia Block
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… — Cinda Williams Chima
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… — Tim Winton
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. — William Gibson
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… — Edward Rutherfurd
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. — Francis Bacon
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… — John Logan
Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or… — Melissa Marr
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself… — Honore de Balzac
Ah. Medieval-style ransom.â€ Toot looked confused. â€œHe did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over… — Jim Butcher
Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler… — Charles de Lint
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big… — Herman Melville
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them… — Paul Mellon
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate… — Natalie Jeremijenko
I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that. — Anthony Geary
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to… — Sadie Jones
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a… — Russell Smith

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