Top 217 Galleries Quotes & Sayings

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you look at the size of the successful art galleries compared to the size of galleries now - there was no such thing as the Gagosian Gallery or Pace Gallery. But it was a time when magazines were a vital part of American life, and Esquire gave me a free pass to every world - I could get to the art world, the theater world, the movie world. It allowed you to roam through the cultural life of New York City.

The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

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.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb—galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince clients of an artist’s worth just by mentioning the mouthwatering response readymade. Most Art Historians aren’t interested in what artists are making in Bushwick studios, most of whom rarely wake up with Duchamp on the brain.

Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do.

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you just go around to that many galleries, and if you stay open, you're going to see work with enough energy and surprise. I don't think I've ever gone to the galleries without coming home thinking, Gee, I now know something I didn't know this morning.

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

My first teenage holiday was spent touring the great art galleries of Europe after having been inspired by what I had seen on television.

I don't get paid for what I do in public places. So I invest the money I earn in galleries back into doing the stuff I passionately want to do on the street.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

I love to be in front of big galleries

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

I visit a lot of art galleries. I live in Dublin and there's a very good gallery called the Kevin Kavanagh gallery.

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.

I'm fortunate in one respect; that I don't have a lot of work in my studio. Most of it's out, gone; either sold or in galleries. I work with a lot of galleries.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

There aren't that many galleries in Havana. There are a few state galleries and an ever-increasing but still limited number of independent galleries; there's no comparison with the number in New York.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.

Art galleries are the best first date spots for my money.

Galleries are nice to me. I sign a lot of autographs.

During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to be present.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

I love art, being so close to the galleries, being by the water - and sunsets from the terrace.

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

In my mornings I can do what I like - go to art galleries, museums and things, go to lunch with people.

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

We want as best as possible to encourage emerging talent and galleries by their inclusion on Paddle8. Our exhibitions help bring interesting new works on the platform. We have to be agnostic in that respect and the galleries themselves have complete carte blanche as far as what they include on the site.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

I've always liked the fact that galleries are free to visit in New York.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

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.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

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

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

Now there is a big turnover in the galleries. The top galleries are getting better all the time. A lot of galleries just struggle along, then a new one comes along. There are certainly a great number of galleries. I think this argues well for the art but there are, of course, a lot of "phonies" in all the arts.

I love to be in front of big galleries.

I love wandering. It's liberating to throw away the map and explore uncharted galleries. You'll nearly always stumble into something immensely interesting that way.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

I came late to galleries. A lot of people my age started their careers younger, so I was spared seeing that side for a long time.