"Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and……" — Jerry Saltz
"Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open."
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188 Quotes by Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz has 188 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill…
- Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.
- There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.
- Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
- Art is a self-replicating force.
- Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the…
- Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.
- Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your…
- Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work…
- More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write,…
- Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.
- Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.
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