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

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

- Jerry Saltz

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

- Jerry Saltz

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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

Art is a self-replicating force.

- 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…

- Jerry Saltz