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Jerry Saltz Quotes

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art Picture Quote #1

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument Picture Quote #1

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn’t disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn’t Picture Quote #1

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After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They’re more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all Picture Quote #1

I am all for art’s finding a large audience. But the way that’s happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It’s watering things down Picture Quote #1

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this Picture Quote #1

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that’s left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term Picture Quote #1

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn’t seeing at all Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money Picture Quote #1

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world Picture Quote #1

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Once artists are expected to shock, it’s that much harder for them to do so Picture Quote #1

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they’re doing it? Picture Quote #1

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Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well Picture Quote #1

I love art dealers. In some ways, they’re my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries Picture Quote #1

Imagine it’s 1981. You’re an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You’re also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn’t that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language Picture Quote #1

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled Picture Quote #1

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines Picture Quote #1

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together Picture Quote #1

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To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease (Jerry Saltz Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn’t disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn’t (Jerry Saltz Quotes) After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They’re more interested in the possible than the probable, the private that speaks publicly rather than the public with no private side at all (Jerry Saltz Quotes) I am all for art’s finding a large audience. But the way that’s happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It’s watering things down (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this (Jerry Saltz Quotes) While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that’s left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn’t seeing at all (Jerry Saltz Quotes) 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 Quotes) Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world (Jerry Saltz Quotes) A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing (Jerry Saltz Quotes) 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 Quotes) Once artists are expected to shock, it’s that much harder for them to do so (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they’re doing it? (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well (Jerry Saltz Quotes) I love art dealers. In some ways, they’re my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Imagine it’s 1981. You’re an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You’re also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn’t that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled (Jerry Saltz Quotes) The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines (Jerry Saltz Quotes) Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together (Jerry Saltz Quotes)

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