Peter Saul Quotes

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.

I love going to galleries, particularly the National Portrait Gallery.

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

An art book is a museum without walls.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home.

The sun never sets on my gallery.

Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.

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

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

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.

My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

I love to collect modern art.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

I collect a lot of art.

I always loved art shows at schools. My friends with kids would go, and I would go with them. It's some of my favorite art... It's more about creativity than the grand statement of an agenda.

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

It is not polite to receive a favor without returning it.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

When I'm in New York, my favorite place on the planet is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.