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A great artist has a unique vision ... obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. — Jerry Saltz

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. — Jerry Saltz

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. — Jerry Saltz

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. — Jerry Saltz

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to. — Jerry Saltz

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. — Jerry Saltz

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. — Jerry Saltz

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. — Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human. — Jerry Saltz

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. — Jerry Saltz

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know this, but they are in a bind. — Jerry Saltz

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art. — Jerry Saltz

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise. — Jerry Saltz

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. — Jerry Saltz

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find. — Jerry Saltz

I like that the art world isn't regulated. — Jerry Saltz

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. — Jerry Saltz

Art is a self-replicating force. — Jerry Saltz

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D. — Jerry Saltz

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. — Jerry Saltz

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much. — Jerry Saltz

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter. — Jerry Saltz

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist. — Jerry Saltz

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. — Jerry Saltz

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. — Jerry Saltz

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. — Jerry Saltz

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well. — Jerry Saltz

When art wins, everyone wins. — Jerry Saltz

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. — Jerry Saltz

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. — Jerry Saltz

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so. — Jerry Saltz

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes. — Jerry Saltz

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. — Jerry Saltz

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. — Jerry Saltz

Energy and art go where they will. — Jerry Saltz

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective. — Jerry Saltz

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — Jerry Saltz

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe. — Jerry Saltz

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page. — Jerry Saltz

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. — Jerry Saltz

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. — Jerry Saltz

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact. — Jerry Saltz

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. — Jerry Saltz

I hate art auctions. — Jerry Saltz

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. — Jerry Saltz

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be. — Jerry Saltz

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style. — Jerry Saltz

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. — Jerry Saltz

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money. — Jerry Saltz

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future. — Jerry Saltz

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade. — Jerry Saltz

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. — Jerry Saltz

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. — Jerry Saltz

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere. — Jerry Saltz

Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can ... . The art world is high school with money. — Jerry Saltz

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. — Jerry Saltz

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too. — Jerry Saltz

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see. — Jerry Saltz

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all. — Jerry Saltz

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine. — Jerry Saltz

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. — Jerry Saltz