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Because Quotes by Jerry Saltz
- 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…
- It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946,…
- Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
- Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help…
- 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…
- Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some…
- Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because…
- My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love…
- The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch,…
- 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 backs…
- One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other…
More Because Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle