#gallery

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

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My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#actor #always #beautiful #because #cafe

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

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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

#art #gallery #humans #kind #look

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#gallery #never #playing #see #want

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#door #fire #gallery #i #national