#gallery

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

It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history. ↗

— Nanci Kincaid

#happy #heart #masterpieces #memory #private-gallery

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. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#cemetery #gallery #i #living #metropolitan

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

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#i #star #wanted

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition. ↗

— Andrew Jack

#australia #because #competition #everyone #galleries

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

— Otto Hermann Kahn

#gallery #hungry #often #sensation #too