Gallery Quotes

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I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or… — Yoko Ono
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries,… — Jean Paul
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can. — Salman Rushdie
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. — Jerry Saltz
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings… — Jerry Saltz
I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices… — Jerry Saltz
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall… — Jerry Saltz
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life… — Jerry Saltz
Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing… — Jerry Saltz
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a… — Jerry Saltz
Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons… — Jerry Saltz
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces… — Jerry Saltz
Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help… — Jerry Saltz
I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth… — Jerry Saltz
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is,… — Jerry Saltz
I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get… — Jerry Saltz
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus'… — Jerry Saltz
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art… — Jerry Saltz
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become… — Jerry Saltz

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