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Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isnt any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument. – Jerry Saltz

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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. – Jerry Saltz

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When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I wont miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the Eventocracy. All this flashy art-fair art and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event. – Jerry Saltz

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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. – Andre Maurois

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In art the best is good enough. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. – Paul Cezanne

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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. – Lincoln Steffens

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