The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way.
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
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.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.
My dad is a sculptor and a painter, and mum runs an art gallery, which sells beautiful jewelry and ceramics and paintings - local and international.
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?'
I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.
All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
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.
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.
If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery artworks.
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.
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.
I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
I enjoy the oohs! and aahs! from the gallery when I hit my drives. But I'm getting pretty tired of the awws! and uhhs! when I miss the putt.
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
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.
I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.
When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull a club and swing.
How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.
In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television, the camera does that work for you.
Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
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.
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.
My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.
When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
The National Gallery is the place that means to represent everything that's good and important in art and show what it believes everyone who is a citizen should recognize and engage.
I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.
It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people.
Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
They give us courage, but you can't play for the gallery, you have to play for your team-mates.
I've always had this dream of doing an art gallery thing, and it was just finally, 'All right, let's do it.'
Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.
he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America
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