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Chris Tyrell Art Quotes - (8 quotes)

Chris Tyrell - From the Business category:

Artists often make emotional decisions. They can be so eager to be represented by a gallery that they neglect paying due diligence to the terms and conditions of their contract. (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Collectors category:

It has been said of many buyers of fine art that they invest in the artist and that they do not just buy a work. (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Communication category:

For me, successful communication is comprehensible communication. Consequently, I have issues with "artspeak". (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Dealers category:

A good artist/gallery relationship will ensure that the buyer is kept abreast of the artist's development in an effort to maintain an interest in the artist. (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Originality category:

In the visual arts, originality can be a very ambiguous word. (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Originality category:

The existence of originality, it seems, is as threatened as many plants and animals. Originality is becoming an endangered achievement. (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Plagiarism category:

Too much appropriation, and you have visual art plagiarism. (Chris Tyrell)

Chris Tyrell - From the Rejection category:

How you react to rejection is important. It is not the rejection of others that truly affects us, the problem occurs when... that rejection by others causes us to "reject" ourselves. (Chris Tyrell)

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