Conflict Quote by Jerry Saltz

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of…

— Jerry Saltz

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

— Danny Boyle

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd…

— Wallace Stevens

There was a kind of cultural life in New York that wasn't as solidified as it is now, it wasn't as money-driven. If you…

— Robert Benton

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

— Sloane Crosley

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware…

— Jennifer Beals

If you just turn to your paper or television each day, there are thousands of stories that are much more shocking than the gallery…

— Ai Weiwei

“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news.…

— William Klein

“A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a…

— Pauline Kael

“It is almost inconceivable that so many filmmakers could think of nothing -- be inspired by nothing -- nothing, nothing, nothing -- but the…

— Sohrab Ahmari