Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
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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