Gallery Quotations | Page 2

You don't go into the National Gallery of any famous capital city and cry, sob, laugh, fall about on the floor, become very angry - it's a completely different reaction. It's a reaction which is to do with a much more composed sense of regarding an image; it's a reaction with a thought process as opposed to an immediate emotional reaction.

For me, the gallery legitimates the art production and helps build collections. I don't think an artist should do everything by himself forever. I did it for years and then slowly built my circle of trust.

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

People are intimidated by galleries, ... Being interactive with the gallery is a very important thing.

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life.

I'd prefer they didn't show them or accept them. They certainly looked like the artists' work, but if the West Australian gallery was interested in works from the Western Desert, you'd like to think they'd come to us directly.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

The decision to host this exhibition was a no-brainer. Our own Robert Rauschenberg Gallery features a variety of works including posters, collages and mixed media, so this traveling exhibition seemed to be a natural extension of our interpretation of a very influential and innovative artist.

There has never been a gallery here for me to show my work. I show all over the country, and I've never had the privilege of showing in a gallery here.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom