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Visual Quotes by Jerry Saltz
- 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…
- The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most…
- I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting,…
- 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 joy…
- Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual…
- 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,…
- If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair…
- In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time…
- New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we…
More Visual Quotes
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a… — David Bowie
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things… — William S. Burroughs
- So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and… — Sophia Bush
- I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. — Lee Child
- When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you… — John Cleese
- Design is thinking made visual. — Saul Bass