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Art Exhibitions Quotes

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art Picture Quote #1

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she’d take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions Picture Quote #1

You can’t understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you’re sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions Picture Quote #1

I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They’ll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition Picture Quote #1

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Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It’s their fault I’ve become an actress Picture Quote #1

I’m trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don’t have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions Picture Quote #1

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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings Picture Quote #1

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there’s always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion Picture Quote #1

We just became very good friends [ with Dwight Eisenhower ], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, ‘Degenerate Art,’ which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called ‘sick’ and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis Picture Quote #1

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking Picture Quote #1

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I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York Picture Quote #1

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art Picture Quote #1

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books Picture Quote #1

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits Picture Quote #1

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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art (Art Exhibitions Quotes) My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she’d take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) You can’t understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) (Art Exhibitions Quotes) 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. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you’re sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They’ll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) 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. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It’s their fault I’ve become an actress. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) I’m trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) 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. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don’t have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there’s always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) We just became very good friends [ with Dwight Eisenhower ], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) 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. (Art Exhibitions Quotes) There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, ‘Degenerate Art,’ which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called ‘sick’ and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis (Art Exhibitions Quotes) Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking (Art Exhibitions Quotes) I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York (Art Exhibitions Quotes) I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art (Art Exhibitions Quotes) Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books (Art Exhibitions Quotes) Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits (Art Exhibitions Quotes)