Gallery Quotes

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. View quote
Thom Gunn
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. View quote
William Congreve
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting. View quote
Jean Chrétien
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Banksy
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. View quote
James Frey
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said "No Sketching." How obnoxious! I said, "How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?" (David Hockney)
To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. View quote
William Cowper
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. View quote
Francis Bacon
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth. View quote
Anton Chekhov
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum.. View quote
Marc Chagall
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. View quote
Aldo Leopold
There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end. View quote
Arne Glimcher
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. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. (Daniel Libeskind)
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them. View quote
Julie Mehretu
The sun never sets on my gallery. View quote
Larry Gagosian
I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. View quote
Payne Stewart
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. View quote
Sam Palladio