Exhibitions quotes
60 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another must not be dependent on his performance. It should be given because of who we are-not because of how we behave."
"I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate public taste."
"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibitions have been a failure, because the rich bitches don't want to buy anything."
"Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness."
"Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them."
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"I crave fit disposition for my wife; Due reference of place, and exhibition; With such accommodation, and besort, As levels with her breeding."
"Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work."
"Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world."
"I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition."
"At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later."
"These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art."
"A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ."
