Gallery Quotes

“The problem with museums [...] is that there's far too much art, so that no matter how well you plan your route or how noble your intentions, you will always find yourself walking irritably past priceless works of profound genius looking for the bathrooms.
And you feel slightly cheapened afterwards, like you've let yourself down - at least I do.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the hearts of people. Paint good photos in their minds.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Make a good gallery! Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the hearts of people. Paint good photos in their minds.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“They wanted people to wake up to a city that had been transformed into a gallery, bursts of colour amid the pigeon-coloured buildings. They wanted their posters to be the only thing people talked about that day.”
― Magdalena McGuire, Home Is Nearby

“The room was filled with paintings, created by masters in centuries past, lining the three sides of the room, but, in the centre was the marquee attraction, the one work they hoped would draw the crowds.”
― Connor Sansby, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“I was in deadly earnest about developing my talent, and carousing had no lure for me. I applied myself assiduously to the work in hand, and as I proceeded I became more and more convinced that graphic art was my road to recognition. Painting interested me no less, but I thought of it as having no influence. If one painted a portrait, or a landscape, or whatever, for a rich man to own in his private gallery, what was the use? On the other hand, a cartoon could be reproduced by simple mechanical processes and easily made accessible to hundreds of thousands. I wanted a large audience. . . The prevailing art of that period embraced a thorough, almost photographic, lens-like observance of detail. Gerome, Messonier, Cabanel, Vibert, and Bougeaureau were in the forefront of the artworld then, because they were accurate, precise draftsmen.”
― Art Young, Art Young: His Life and Times

“This gallery is not a space—it’s a conversation between souls across time.”
― Jennifer Pierre

“Do not play to the gallery if you so yearn for victory.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, A Manual for Victory