Gallery Quotes

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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have… — J. Carter Brown
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I… — Malina Suliman
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet they… — Ernst Gombrich
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from… — Juvenal
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. — William Cowper
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the… — Gilbert Parker
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. — Jorge Luis Borges
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or… — Joshua Reynolds
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than… — Lucian Freud
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. — Jeff Koons
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the… — Jeff Koons
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my… — Sol LeWitt
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is… — Jerry Saltz
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.… — Jerry Saltz
All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all. — Jack White
Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural… — Antony Gormley
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect… — Thomas Kinkade
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
It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be… — Kay WalkingStick
And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the… — Theodore Roosevelt

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