Quotes About Exhibition

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

I was doing commentary for the BBC and had exhibition work but if you're not winning you are not earning as much. And when you're seen as a successful sportsman, people assume you're earning a good living. There was pressure on me to have the newest car, a more expensive holiday. It was all about keeping up appearances.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.

I'll never forget my first Art Basel.

Essa rua espalhafatosa, alvoroçada e vulgar lembra-nos que a vida é uma luta; que toda construção é perecível; que toda exibição é vaidade.

The majority of exposed penises in major museums belong to the Baby Jesus.

The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'

We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.

Oysa hayat?m?zdaki utanç verici ÅŸeyler bir müzede sergilenirlerse, hemen gururlan?lacak ÅŸeylere dönüÅŸürler.

Theology, therefore, is the exhibition of the facts of Scripture in their proper order and relation, with the principles or general truths involved in the facts themselves, and which pervade and harmonize the whole.

The very idea of an exhibition is that we live in a world with each other, in which it is possible to make arrangements, associations, connections and wordless gestures, and, through this mise en scène, to speak.

I don't believe in the creativity of the curator. I don't think that the exhibition-maker has brilliant ideas around which the works of artists must fit. Instead, the process always starts with a conversation, in which I ask the artists what their unrealized projects are, and then the task is to find the means to realize them.

My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe's works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Only an idiot would open an exhibition saying, 'Look at my awesome work.'

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

I know you will laugh at me, he replied, but I really can't exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.

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