Quotes by Jerry Saltz - AI Generated Quotes

Jerry Saltz

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

-Jerry Saltz

age

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

-Jerry Saltz

alone

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

-Jerry Saltz

alone

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.

-Jerry Saltz

amazing

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

-Jerry Saltz

amazing

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

-Jerry Saltz

amazing

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.

-Jerry Saltz

art

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.

-Jerry Saltz

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

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

art

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

-Jerry Saltz

art

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

-Jerry Saltz

art

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

-Jerry Saltz

art

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

-Jerry Saltz

art

When art wins, everyone wins.

-Jerry Saltz

art

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

-Jerry Saltz

art

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

-Jerry Saltz

art

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

-Jerry Saltz

art

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

-Jerry Saltz

art

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

-Jerry Saltz

art

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

-Jerry Saltz

art

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

-Jerry Saltz

art

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

-Jerry Saltz

art

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

-Jerry Saltz

art

I hate art auctions.

-Jerry Saltz

art

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.

-Jerry Saltz

art

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

-Jerry Saltz

art

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

-Jerry Saltz

art

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

-Jerry Saltz

art

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Jerry Saltz

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

When art wins, everyone wins.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

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

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

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

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

I hate art auctions.

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.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Other Authors to Explore

Elmer Davis

Jonathan Larson

Harry Segall

Pythagoras

Vince Flynn

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Stephen Gardiner