Exhibitions – Quotes

In the exhibition at

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting – I think it’s very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them. Erro

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, Did you make big collages like this in the ’60s? I said … Read more

I do here in

I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst love of peace can lower us are unfathomable. … Read more

Music makes me alive

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain – that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights. Emily Saliers

Ideal conversation must be

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. Emily Post

[Walter White] had keep

[Walter White] had keep [people] waiting while you got the impression that he was terribly busy with calls to Washington. I’ve seen such exhibitions in that direction as having someone come out of his office to the switchboard operator – which at that time was sort of located in the center of wherever people were … Read more

I’ve always thought Marilyn

I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big. Elizabeth Hurley

I don\\’t think it\\’s

I don’t think it’s necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I’ve read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it’s disturbing. I think they’re fooling themselves very often. They’re just talking, they’re not saying anything. Eliot Porter

Most museums – with

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. Eli Broad

If it were possible

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant’s work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we’ve ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things. Edward Steichen