Good Quotes by Jerry Saltz

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

— Jerry Saltz

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst…

— Jerry Saltz

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.

— Jerry Saltz

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the…

— 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

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is…

— Jerry Saltz

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad…

— Jerry Saltz

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good…

— Jerry Saltz

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet…

— Jerry Saltz

After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.…

— Jerry Saltz

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In…

— Jerry Saltz

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three.…

— Jerry Saltz