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Quotes About Gallery

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.
~ Kesh
That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
~ Nan Goldin
When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.
~ Polixeni Papapetrou
Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to be a museum curator without it, work in any senior position in an auction house or gallery, or become a serious art critic.
~ Munira Mirza
Exhibitions were experiments.
~ Peter Plagens
They live down on gallery two in the Chinese Sixteenth.' 'Don't you mean the Chinese Quarter?' said Peter. 'No. That would be a quarter of a gallery,' Festival explained. 'This is only a sixteenth.' She
~ Colin Thompson
'Point Omega' starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of 'Psycho,' an installation that was created by the Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon. In it, the events and the minutiae of Hitchcock's film are painfully slowly reproduced; the watcher is obsessed with the detail revealed.
~ Justin Cartwright
She would never tell him and was ashamed to admit it, even to herself, but she'd fallen in love with him the instant she'd seen him. She'd been taken at gunpoint to the alleyway outside a gallery showing her paintings and had seen a powerful man, not tall but immensely broad. He was facing three armed thugs and he hadn't looked frightened at all. He'd looked dangerous. And she'd fallen.
~ Unknown
presented by a gallery.
~ Unknown
he would see this moment forever—one of life's gallery of pictures—
~ Jodi Picoult
Don't ask me my opinions on art, because I don't have any. Aesthetic concerns have played a relatively minor role in my life, and I have to smile when a critic talks, for example, of my "palette". I find it impossible to spend hours in galleries analyzing and gesticulating.
~ Luis Bunuel
huddled, whispering together at the railing that separated the gallery from the courtroom
~ John Lescroart
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
~ Sam Palladio
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Carly went back and forth between several of the paintings, trying to decide which one was least likely to frighten small children. "You know, your work is very Ã¢â'¬Â¦ unique, Hazel. I can honestly say I've never seen anything quite like it.
~ Unknown
If you learn to be a psychoanalyst, and you're working as a psychoanalyst, your job is in that context. If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. And my context is art.
~ Marina Abramovic
The front hall doubled as an art gallery. The exhibition was a series of modern interpretations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Virgin as seamstress. The Virgin wearing boxing gloves. The Virgin working the drive-thru window at McDonald's.
~ Unknown
On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Martha Beck
Although Reed tried valiantly, the income from print sales never balanced out the high cost of framing, advertising, printing announcements, and the rent on New York's prestigious gallery row, West Fifty-seventh Street. She confessed that the Delphic Studios were "a philanthropic endeavor rather than a business enterprise" and that, sadly, "sales were so infrequent as to make hope of any return at all from commissions a remote possibility.
~ Unknown
Some paintings were no more than a single perfect brushstroke that conjured a simple yet breathtaking fish or stalk of bamnoo. Clay sculptures in various states of completion lined shelves at the far end of the gallery.
~ Unknown
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
~ Matthew Arnold
Moderne Malerei ist jener Wandbehang, dem das häppchenverdrückende und plaudernde Publikum bei Vernissagen seinen Rücken zukehrt.
~ Unknown
Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.
~ Unknown