When art wins, everyone wins.
Quote by Jerry Saltz
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When art wins, everyone wins.
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Jerry Saltz Quotes
- Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
- All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.
- The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
- Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
- One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
- 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 alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
- Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
- 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.
- 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.
- We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
Best Quotes
- Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
- Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
- Junk food drags you down.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.