Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

The sun never sets on my gallery.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Being in a room full of my art makes me incredibly nervous because the work always gets damaged when it's shown, and I hate my openings.

Doing art at Marlborough, where I went to school, was really quite tough, and I knew that it wasn't the direction I wanted to go. I'd rather show art and give people the joy of seeing it.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

My mum is a big collector of art.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

I love to collect modern art.

The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

I collect a lot of art.

An art book is a museum without walls.

Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.

I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.

We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally, I said, "Norman?" "Yeah?" "Are you ever going to show me the painting?" "Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient." "I am not," I said. "I've been waiting forever." "Okay, okay." He stood up and went over to the corner, picking up the painting and bringing it over to rest against the bright pink belly of one of the mannequins. Then, he handed me a bandana. "Tie that on.

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.