Art Gallery Quotes

“There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.”
― David Nicholls, Us

“A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“How funny things are! You go to those museums and galleries and think what a damned bore they are and then, when you least expect it, you find that something you've seen comes in useful. It shows art and all that isn't really waste of time.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre

“A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen”
― James Elkins, Pictures and Tears

“For it did seem to be the case, she reflected, that the owners of art galleries were very frequently men who were unable to use ordinary language with any precision and who walked about in a horrible blizzard of peculiar superlatives and meaningless coinages from which they tried to shelter themselves by a wild flailing of their hands.”
― Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy

“Art comes of age in Point Cook.”
― Anthony T. Hincks