Life Quotes by Jerry Saltz

11 Life quotes by Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz offers a critic’s eye on everyday existence, distilling his thoughts into eleven concise observations that balance wit with cultural commentary. It’s a quick read for anyone looking for a fresh, art‑savvy angle on living.

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

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

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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that…

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Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,…

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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary…

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Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet…

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Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are…

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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -…

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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting…

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Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in…

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I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has…

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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…

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My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic…

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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…

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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…

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

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