Jerry Saltz Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Psychics, Comfort

• Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Way

• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

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  Running, Art, Lying

• Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Opportunity, Art Is

• 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

  Jerry Saltz

  Summer, Art, New York

• Make an enemy of jealousy and envy. As fast and soon as you can…. The art world is high school with money.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, School, Envy

• In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Camouflage, Narrative

  "Cubes! The Horror!". nymag.com. April 1, 2012.

• The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Cities

• 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, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

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  Art, Museums, Years

• Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

  Jerry Saltz

  Summer, Art, Swimming

• Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

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  Art, Squares, Museums

• Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Ideas, Video

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

• When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wine, Space

• Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

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  Art, America, News

• 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 epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

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  Art, Journey, Epic

• The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

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  Art, Levels, Existentialism

• John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

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  Art, Years, Ironic

• It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

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  Art, Expectations, Progress

• Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

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  Art, Mushrooms, Names

• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

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  Art, Wall, Order

• These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Flesh Eating, Viruses

• While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

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  Art, Stars, Numbers

• First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

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  Art, Firsts, Building

• I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

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  Art, Tunnels, Light

• Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Opinion

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