Gallery Quotes

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

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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.

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.

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

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I've been collecting photos for a long time, I mean since I started making money. But what you have had to go through to find a good photo is like a needle in the haystack sometimes. You'll drive from one gallery to the next gallery to the next gallery. It's not an easy process. It's a very ancient model that just hasn't caught up with the times.