Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.
I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing yo… - Jerry Saltz
I think that cynicism is the enemy. Cynicism thinks it knows how things work. "Oh yeah, you know how that works." I think uncertainty is the thing yo…
- Jerry Saltz
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, g… - Jerry Saltz
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, g…
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recogniz… - Jerry Saltz
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recogniz…
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like. - Jerry Saltz
Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged a… - Jerry Saltz
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged a…
Art is a self-replicating force. - Jerry Saltz
Art is a self-replicating force.
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and re… - Jerry Saltz
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and re…
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. - Jerry Saltz
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art... skill h… - Jerry Saltz
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art... skill h…
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