Jerry Saltz Quotes

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

Good, Bad, Making

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
Jerry Saltz

Caring, Clothes, Dubious

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Jerry Saltz

Greatest, Human, Imagine

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

Art, Places, Immigrants

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, Show, Genius

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
Jerry Saltz

May, Living, Artists

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

Art, Here, Again

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

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

Money, Art, America

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Jerry Saltz

Great, Past, Give

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

Art, Opinion, Fast

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, Youth, Artist

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
Jerry Saltz

Strange, Between, Few

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
Jerry Saltz

Hate, Group, Events

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
Jerry Saltz

May, Control, Choose

I hate art auctions.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Hate, Auctions

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

Art, Bad, Matter

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.
Jerry Saltz

Eat, Prepared, Cooked

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.
Jerry Saltz

Long, After, Dangerous

I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Jerry Saltz

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
Jerry Saltz

Die, After, Against

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.
Jerry Saltz

Matter, Against, Style

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

Politics, Art, Put

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
Jerry Saltz

Future, Writing, Criticism

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, Rather, Seeing

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Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: February 19, 1951

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