#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. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#becomes #charge #disengaged #gallery #loses

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#copies #few #gallery #many #originals

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. ↗

— James Franco

#art #because #bought #commercial #commercial work

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

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. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#been #caught #collecting #drive #easy

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. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#books #clearly #concerned #gallery #i

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#door #fire #gallery #i #national

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#audience #gallery #get #i #immediate

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. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#art #beck #call #drop #employers

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

— David Amram

#bohemia #gallery #lower #people #upper