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Galleries Quotes

These galleries quotes explore crowded popularity, questions of access, and how art spaces help us process bigger civilizational challenges.

These galleries quotes weigh how popular art spaces have become against real concerns about access and elitism in the art world. For more on the people behind the work, our Artist quotes are a natural companion.

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

Quotes by Zaha Hadid

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

Quotes by Thomas P. Campbell

Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

Quotes by Peter Gabriel

Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars, and that's...

Quotes by Molly Crabapple

Art Quotes

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...

Quotes by Michael Huffington

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that...

Quotes by Matthew Barney

States that have experienced revolutions or have acquired their independence from empires - such as the U.S. or Australia - tend to celebrate their constitutional documents and put them on show in special galleries so that every citizen can become...

Quotes by Linda Colley

When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art, but I have a really hard time caring about it. I'd rather look at images of people and...

Quotes by Kyp Malone

When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

Quotes by Jessica Hart

Artist Quotes

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to...

Quotes by Jerry Saltz

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more...

Quotes by Jerry Saltz

I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised...

Quotes by Jean Pigozzi

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an...

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

Quotes by Humphry Davy

Enough Quotes

Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making zines and stuff. I thought I was too punk for art and felt grossed out by white-room galleries...

Quotes by Hunx

Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.

Quotes by Hisham Matar

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

Milan, for me, is a city of discovery. You can find some amazing gardens behind some great houses; I also love finding beautiful galleries and incredible shops, but you have to explore. And the food is amazing.

Quotes by Francisco Costa

I have a study at the back of the house, overlooking our garden. It's tiny, just wide enough to fit my desk in. The walls are covered with pin boards and art postcards from galleries all over the world, including...

Quotes by Emma Healey

Good Quotes

We live in a world where art exists in galleries and museums, and musicians have to play the same venues over and over.

Quotes by Doug Aitken

Frequently Asked Questions

What's said about crowding in these galleries quotes?
One notes that London's many fine art spaces and museums are wonderful but can get quite packed with visitors on any given afternoon.
How do galleries connect to bigger challenges in this topic?
One reflects that we live amid ongoing civilizational challenges, and that galleries are where we can unpack and process those larger currents.
Is there a quote about access or elitism in art?
Yes, one argues fine art favors the wealthy due to high prices of entry, and that illustrators are looked down on for working at a lower price point.
Do galleries get compared to other kinds of spaces here?
Yes, one compares time spent at galleries, cinemas, and theme parks to time spent at religious spaces, calling them our new cathedrals.
What topic pairs with galleries quotes?
Our Artist quotes connect naturally, focusing on the people whose work fills the spaces discussed here.

One view argues galleries help us process wider civilizational challenges, while another questions whether Enough access exists for anyone outside a narrow social circle. Our Art quotes expand on the same tension.