Art Galleries Quotes:

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

- James Frey

source: "James Frey: 'I always wanted to be the outlaw'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2011.

topic: Art, Thinking, Want, Art Galleries

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

- Michelangelo

topic: Christian, Art, Perfection, Fine Arts, Inspirational Art

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Life, Art, Diaries, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Artist

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

- Aristotle

topic: Art, Philosophy, Philosophical, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

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

- Thom Gunn

topic: Art, Thinking, Looks, Art Galleries

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

- Charles Tart

topic: Beautiful, Art, Nature, Art Galleries

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.

- Marina Abramovic

topic: Art, How You Feel, Behind You, Art Galleries

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

- Vivienne Westwood

topic: Art, Race, Names, Art Galleries

There is no must in art because art is free.

- Wassily Kandinsky

source: Wassily Kandinsky (1981). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.52, Library of Alexandria

topic: Art, Art Is, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Art, Inspirational Artist

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

- Han Suyin

topic: Art, Gallery, Moralist, Art Galleries

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Art, Sky, Space, Star Gazing, Art Galleries

Great art picks up where nature ends.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Art, Ends, Great Art, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Music, Happy Children, Fine Arts

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

- Julian Beever

topic: Art, People, Gallery, Art Galleries

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

- Michelangelo

topic: Art, Pain, Inspiration, Joining Hands, Inspiration And Art

Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

- Antony Gormley

topic: Art, Believe, Views, Icing, Art Galleries

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

- Nas

source: "Hey Young World: Tyler, the Creator Interviews Nas, Pt. 2 [Excerpt From the November 2011 Issue]". Interview with Tyler, the Creator, www.xxlmag.com. October 25, 2011.

topic: Art, Mean, World, Art Galleries, Art World

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

- Charles de Lint

source: Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.137, Macmillan

topic: Art, Inspiration, Appreciate, Art Galleries

Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

- Michelangelo Pistoletto

topic: Art, Museums, People, Presentation, Art Galleries

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

- Humphry Davy

topic: Art, Paris, Saws, Art Galleries

Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.

- Jack White

topic: Art, Book, Numbers, Bios, Words On Paper

In the times in which we live it is far too restricting to say that art can only be found in art galleries and not touch people's everyday lives. I want to use any means that are necessary to communicate with people what I feel about things. There are no rules. And if there are rules, then you may as well break them.

- Ken Done

source: Ken Done (1996). “Ken Done: Paintings and Drawings, 1975-1987”, Craftsman House (AU)

topic: Art, Mean, People, Art Galleries

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

- Sol LeWitt

topic: Art, Wall, Ideas, Installation, Continuation

Honestly, I don’t believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

- Janelle Monae

source: "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

topic: Art, Believe, Focus, Art Galleries

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.

- Mel Bochner

topic: Photography, Art, Looks, Art Galleries

Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly into an art gallery and dip your forelock and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere. It's how you use your eyes. It's about the enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly not for any one group of people.

- Ken Done

topic: Art, Eye, People, Art Galleries

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.

- Jeff Koons

topic: Art, World, Arena, Art Galleries

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.

- Lawren Harris

source: "The best of the Group of Seven".

topic: Country, Art, Real, Art Galleries

Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.

- Goh Chok Tong

topic: Art, Writing, Class, World Class, Art Galleries

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

- James McAvoy

topic: Art, Guy, Modern, Favourite Things, Art Galleries

In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of Jesus in chocolate. So, the Archbishop of New York was very upset. He said, 'It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.'

- Bill Maher

topic: Jesus, Art, Atheist, Excuse Me, Art Galleries

The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires

- Banksy

source: "Banksy: Wall and Piece". Book by Banksy, 2005.

topic: Art, Real, People, Wall And Piece, Art Galleries

I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art should only be kept for art galleries and doesn't have a role in public life, I think that's too narrow.

- Ken Done

topic: Art, Thinking, People, Art Galleries

Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!

- Michael Jackson

topic: Beautiful, Girl, Art, Messed Up, Reasons To Smile

I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

- Vivienne Westwood

topic: Art, Air, People, Art Galleries, Fewer

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Art, New York, Block, Art Galleries

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

topic: Running, Art, Interesting, Flashy Cars, Flashy

If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.

- John Waters

source: Source: www.thehippocollective.com

topic: Art, Trying, World, Best Artist, Art Galleries

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

- Joan Larkin

source: "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

topic: Art, Years, World, Art Galleries

I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.

- Russell James

topic: Dream, Art, People, Art Galleries

I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.

- Kesh

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Art, Growing Up, Home, Art Galleries

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

- Michael Huffington

topic: Art, Church Service, Long, Art Galleries, Theme Parks

Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

- Stephen Fry

topic: Art, School, Winning, Alumni, Prize Winning

I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show in an art gallery I probably wouldn't really make very much sculpture. But I've had the opportunity to show in big spaces, so I want to fill up that space in the same way you might want to fill up a page.

- David Shrigley

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Art, Opportunity, Thinking, Art Galleries

I have a set of images that go around the world in an art gallery installation. Each of them have different audiences, and they kind of each elucidate the subject in a slightly different way, and they ping off of each other.

- Tim Hetherington

source: Source: www.thewrap.com

topic: Art, Different, World, Art Galleries, Ping

Ultimately I want my metal in a bar and not an art gallery.

- Mat McNerney

topic: Art, Bars, Want, Art Galleries

I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.

- Emma Donoghue

source: "The Keeper of Room". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Art, Writing, Smell, Social History, Art Galleries

A child came up to me and asked 'am I dreaming?' I had a similar experience coming to the Art Gallery of South Australia when I was a child. My mum had done a workshop here and it stayed with me. It's an important formative time.

- Patricia Piccinini

source: Source: www.lucyreesart.com

topic: Dream, Art, Children, South Australia, Art Galleries

Sometime when I was in my mid-twenties I noticed, "Hey, even I don't go into too many art galleries. Why? Because I don't like the vibe in them. If even I'm not going into galleries, then who goes into art galleries in the first place?" It's just a certain, very narrow percentage of the population.

- Eric Drooker

topic: Art, Twenties, Population, Art Galleries