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Almost Quotes by Jerry Saltz
- Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
- A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of…
- Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has…
- I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the…
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is,…
- I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get…
- 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;…
- It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed…
- Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic…
- Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that,…
More Almost Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears. — Dave Attell
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen… — Jane Austen
- Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost… — Paul Auster