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Quotes About Gallery

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.
~ Arne Glimcher
There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.
~ Arne Glimcher
And then there's the matter of the show. Did he promise her a show? Is this how the gallery works? Is this how he and my mom got together in the first place? How many women has he done this to? His eye, his eye, everybody's always talking about his eye. But is it an eye for art or for ass?
~ Antoine Wilson
We've got a gallery here, in Chelsea. Plus London and Berlin. That's why I'm trying to get to Germany. For an opening.
~ Antoine Wilson
The summary of most netizen's memory is nothing more than photo gallery only , succinctly to say selfishness personified.
~ Anuj Somany
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.
~ Marina Abramovic
My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
~ David LaChapelle
If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.
~ Johnny Miller
I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
~ Yasmine Al Masri
I don't go digital. I was never good with technology. I didn't have a cellphone until I moved to New York. My gallery was like, 'What? How are we supposed to contact you?'
~ Marcel Dzama
I don't think the art market is for everybody. Yeah, of course we have a global gallery. But we're like the one-tenth of the one-tenth of the one-tenth. OK? Not just who's buying but who's really seriously engaged with art.
~ Larry Gagosian
It's not that I can't find art beautiful. I just don't know what to do, standing there in the gallery. I don't know what to think about. Once I've seen it, I've seen it; that takes about two seconds. I am interested and then immediately bored, immediately.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded seats in the gallery for 15 pence, which was the price of a bus fare.
~ Roger Allam
I've always had this dream of doing an art gallery thing, and it was just finally, 'All right, let's do it.'
~ Josh Blue
The gallery is generating work for the masses.
~ Kim Weston
I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.
~ A. Balasubramaniam
Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'
~ Richard Prince
It was the other man Hardy had noticed in the gallery. Reasonably good-looking, somewhat burly even in his tailored suit, Lightner sported a well-trimmed red beard under a head of dark brown hair. It was a striking combination that Hardy thought might come out of a bottle.
~ John Lescroart
You will certainly remember, that the south-west wing is rather distant from that part of the body of the castle where most of the family inhabit. You know too that my rooms open into a long gallery; but you never explored this gallery. My hours with you were rich in pleasure and variety; and I thought not then of the solitary haunts to which I fly, when I seek amusement and find none.
~ Eliza Fenwick
Yes, Miss Ashburn, when at night you had retired from me, I beheld only solitude and imprisonment; and I have waited hours in that forlorn gallery, that I might catch the whisper of your breathings, that the consciousness of being near a friend might restore me to hope, to hilarity, to confidence.
~ Eliza Fenwick
I respect Virgin Atlantic's brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first ever Gallery in the Air.
~ Ben Eine
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
~ George Bernard Shaw
This place is a regular whispering-gallery.
~ Arnold Bennett