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It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. -- Steve Martin
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. -- Humphry Davy
I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art. -- Nas
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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. -- Jerry Saltz
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept. -- Alison Jackson
Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level. -- Michelangelo Pistoletto
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there. -- Kesh
I've always thought that there shouldn't be any limit to the things that are well designed. And I think that people who consider that art should only be kept for art galleries and doesn't have a role in public life, I think that's too narrow. -- Ken Done
We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient. -- Michael Huffington
I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original. -- James McAvoy
Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community. -- Goh Chok Tong
I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film. -- Russell James
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people. -- Vivienne Westwood
I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery. -- Samuel Barnett
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. -- David Amram
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. -- Jerry Saltz
It's a great meeting place, community center, art gallery, singles bar, music venue. The record store really covers a lot of ground. -- Gary Calamar
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. -- Thom Gunn
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
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. -- Sam Palladio
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it. -- Larry Gagosian
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. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery. -- Jeff Koons
I'm saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I'm in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day. -- Nicola Formichetti
Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition. -- Sadie Jones
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
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. -- Sol LeWitt
My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my dad taught himself how to frame pictures, and then he was a curator at an art gallery in the city I'm from. I'm an only child. -- Ari Millen
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries. -- Marina Abramovic
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. -- Larry Gagosian
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. -- Nita Leland
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. -- Brian Chippendale
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts. -- Julian Beever
Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day. -- Nicola Formichetti
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you. -- Yoko Ono

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