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Often Quotes by Jerry Saltz
- I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my…
- I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists,…
- I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the…
- 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…
- Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out,…
- The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and…
- Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then…
More Often Quotes
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- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
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- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
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