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At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything; it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Usually when I go to the Summer Exhibition, I think every room is too much the same, and I loose my capacity to look at individual works. -- Michael Craig-Martin
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not. -- Michael Craig-Martin
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center. -- James Frey
Keep a record of every picture you paint, have them photographed and write down where they went. Some day, when one reaches a great age, there will be calls for a Retrospective Exhibition of a life's work. -- Keith Shackleton
I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work. -- Michael Craig-Martin
I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work. -- Richard Serra
Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. -- Tracey Emin
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. -- Jeffrey Deitch
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. -- Robert Smithson
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment. -- Robert Irwin
The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion. -- Chris Ofili
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. -- Emily Post
I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism. -- Graham Coxon
The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition. -- Gordon Parks
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore. -- Garry Kasparov
I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade, tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for. -- Carl Hubbell
I remember being an art student and going to the Whitney in 1974 to see the exhibition of Jim Nutt, the Chicago imagist. It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show. -- Jeff Koons
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing. -- Lisa See
Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot. -- LZ Granderson
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy. -- P. T. Barnum
Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me. -- Ruzwana Bashir
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade. -- Jerry Saltz
The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other. -- Thelma Golden
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. -- Richard Phillips
I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition. -- Charles Saatchi
Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition. -- William Deresiewicz
I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition. -- Jean Cocteau
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity. -- Wayne Gretzky
You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament. -- Roger Federer
Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions. -- Vladimir Putin
For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection. -- Michael Craig-Martin
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later. -- Bill Jay
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work. -- Woodrow Wilson
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective -- Tracey Emin
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper. -- Arthur Helps
Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. -- Alistair Cooke
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that. -- Agnes Varda
These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art. -- Geoff Dyer
I had my exhibition of paintings first in Shanghai, and then recently in Wuhan. Wuhan particularly interested me, because I am 1/8 Chinese. -- Michael Craig-Martin
I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding. -- William Shakespeare
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic. -- Robert Aris Willmott
Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature. -- James Legge
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything -- Frida Kahlo
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use. -- Alfred Nobel
If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition. -- John Bellamy Foster
The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks. -- Nathan Sawaya
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition. -- Luis Gonzalez
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful. -- Thomas Hardy
I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales. -- P. T. Barnum
My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded. -- Michael Craig-Martin
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently. -- Walter J. Phillips
That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts? -- Dennis Miller
It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group. -- Claude Monet
It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty. -- Chris Christie
Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world. -- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner. -- Tracey Emin
I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste... -- Claude Monet
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing. -- Walter Lippmann
I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition. -- William Monahan
...the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon... -- Peter Lesley
In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them. -- Erro
To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life. -- Shan Sa

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