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title: "2 Dazzling Quotes By Jerry Saltz"
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> [Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/only-an-artist-as-preternaturally-acute-and-copacetic-as-oddly/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/jerry-saltz-1712_able_only-an-artist-as-preternaturally-acute_339693.png)

> [Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/elizabeth-peyton-the-artist-known-for-tiny-dazzling-portraits-of/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a10/jerry-saltz-1712_age_elizabeth-peyton-the-artist-known-for-ti_1178943.png)

## More by Jerry Saltz

> [One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/one-argument-goes-that-recessions-are-good-for-female-artists-because/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/kinkade-estimated-that-one-of-his-paintings-hung-in-every-twenty/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/the-german-ueber-photographer-andreas-gursky-was-the-perfect-pre-9-11/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/the-debut-show-second-lives-remixing-the-ordinary-is-supposed-to-be/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/while-the-space-for-artists-and-curators-has-increased-enormously/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/those-who-love-him-love-that-he-sells-the-most-art-they-take-it-as-a/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> ['Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/untitled-is-a-time-machine-that-can-transport-you-to-1992-an-edgy/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/i-love-art-dealers-in-some-ways-they-re-my-favorite-people-in-the-art/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/my-nominee-for-best-picture-of-the-year-maybe-the-best-picture-ever/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/many-things-happened-in-the-sixties-but-the-period-is-no-more/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/when-people-in-stadiums-do-the-wave-it-s-the-group-mind-collective/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/few-contemporary-artists-mined-the-space-between-the-ordinary-and-the/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/the-giant-white-cube-is-now-impeding-rather-than-enhancing-the/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/art-schools-are-partly-the-villain-here-never-mind-that-i-teach-in/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

> [There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/there-s-one-baldessari-work-i-genuinely-love-and-would-like-to-own/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

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