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-Broadcast, 1941...
Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise. (Lord Beaverbrook)
To the big-city high-powered galleries demanding exclusivity, my argument is: if you want to be the only agent who sells my work, you must guarantee me a minimum annual income. So far, no one has been willing to do that. (Eleanor Blair)
Galleries are the place to see artists before they hit the museums. Good gallerists are innovators who recognize talent and support that. But it's important to remember that the public is a key part of this. (Caryn Coleman)
When choosing a gallery, don't choose the biggest and best even if your work fits there, but choose an aggressive good gallery in which you are sure to stand out. (Gil Dellinger)
No great collection was ever formed without a dealer. (Gil Edelson)
Dealers should not import, export, or transfer the ownership of a work of art where they have reasonable cause to believe that it has been stolen. (Gil Edelson)
However innocent or careful the dealer may have been, no dealer would welcome the inevitable conflict with a good client turned irate on discovering that he or she had been sold a stolen work. (Gil Edelson)
The business of "offering a work" or "placing" a series of works in the correct gallery is the "white stone". Get your name in the right spot and your life changes. The person who reps you is golden. (Nick Farbacher)
It seems that the Internet is the wave of the future and the gallery will become obsolete. (John Ferrie)
The artists with the biggest egos are the ones who sell the least in the gallery that I manage. I encourage all to paint what is true in your heart and for you to find a rep who really cares about you and your career. (Heidi Foss)
An art gallery is in business to sell art. Ask the same questions you would ask if buying a sofa. "Have you other work of the artist to show me? How much is the painting? Have you a biography of the artist? Thank you, I'll
think about it." (Jeanne Frank)
-in Nicholas Wright's play, Vincent in Brixton...
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. (Vincent van Gogh)
My job is to get the dealers excited, the dealers' job is to get their customers excited. The customer's job is to tell their friends and get them excited. (Brad Greek)
Have a positive mind-set when showing your work to galleries. (Irwin Greenberg)
Galleries are displaying a product. They're not museums. People shouldn't feel intimidated. (Nohra Haime)
-Winslow Homer to Gustav Reichard and Company...
I am quite encouraged at the success of my exhibition and have to thank you for the good management that has produced it. (Winslow Homer)
-to Max Stern...
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting. (E. J. Hughes)
It's difficult to find someone who can draw and paint. (Jennifer Kostuik)
There is... a lot of work located in galleries and put on a pedestal that wouldn't hold its own on the film festival circuit, where it would be seen as very surface and shallow. (Andrew Kotting)
The best artist/gallery relationship is symbiotic in the sense that it should be to our mutual benefit. (Katherine McLean)
-to Amand Gautier...
I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still. (Claude Monet)
-to Paul Durand-Ruel...
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors... (Claude Monet)
-to Paul Durand-Ruel...
Surely you already have a fair number? You do, it's true, keep them cleverly hidden, since they're never on display, which in my opinion is a mistake: what's the point of us painting pictures if the public never gets to see them? (Claude Monet)
I want to see work of exceptional skill that expresses a unique vision and a visceral connection with the subject. (John D. O'Hern)
The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows. (oliver)
There were only five galleries in those days, and the artists really depended on each other socially, psychologically, and even critically. It's impossible now. Business sure screwed up the art world universally. (Robert Rauschenberg)
Of course, the artist must have galleries – usual ones or the Internet kind – it is just important that people see the artist's works. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak)
When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows – literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition. (Charles Saatchi)
Painting is an art, selling is a business. Therefore, it makes economic sense that artists and galleries need each other. (Jo Scott-B)
No man will work for your interests unless they are his. (David Seabury)
When the gallery sells, I pay them a commission for the sale. They get money when they do their job. It's human nature to want to hang onto money that you have in your hand. Artists are in the weaker position. (Lori Woodward Simons)
It takes a long time and great expense to build up the name of an artist and if one of his paintings suddenly appears at a low price at an exhibition especially, then the build up may be endangered. (Max Stern)
We need to have a focused and coherent work presence in any given gallery. If you are in the groove doing your best work in a preferred medium and style with subject matter you know well, then just keep painting and showing... it will break for you. (Richard Tomkinson)
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)
-museum director...
If you understand something, you won't be able to help but like it. That doesn't mean you want to live with it though. (unknown)
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. (Jack White)
Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase. (Sylvia White)
Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture. (Brett Whiteley)
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde)
Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized. (Catherine Yass)
Galleries come and go for many reasons so you must assume that you will have to replace one of ten galleries every year or two. (Dan Young)
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