Art Presentation Quotes

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

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

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.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

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

At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

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.

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.

Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

A lot of the conceptualists and the prestige galleries are debasing themselves in presentations which have little else to them but the presentation.

I like the idea that things can exist in different formats - in a gallery, a fashion ad, in books.

I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.