Gallery Quotes

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave you alone. People have less time just to drop into an art gallery.

I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life.

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 art gallery.

The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

Every so often you might have an outburst in the gallery. That's one of the most exciting things that happen because then you can say, 'Unless there's order we will call the Sergeant at Arms.' And that sounds really scary.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.

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.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.