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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
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
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.
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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
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
When art wins, everyone wins.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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 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