Gallery Quotes

227 quotes by 180 authors

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to… — Jerry Saltz
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing… — Jerry Saltz
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then… — Jerry Saltz
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. — George Bernard Shaw
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. — Robert Smithson
When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. — Arlen Specter
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. — Alexis de Tocqueville
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 out the names… — Vivienne Westwood
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. — Andrew Wyeth
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. — Alber Elbaz
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. â€¦ It is a kind of talent in itself, to… — Ann Patchett
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… — Mark Rothko
he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America — Philip Reeve
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own… — Hakim Bey
A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head… — Anne Rice
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to… — Janet Fitch
Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes… — Melissa Marr
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly… — Gustave Flaubert

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