Jerry Saltz Quotes

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• All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to…
• Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.
• There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.
• Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
• Art is a self-replicating force.
• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so…
• Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.
• 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…
• Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met…
• More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.…
• Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.
• Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.
• 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…
• The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all…
• Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

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