Quote by Jerry Saltz
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. – Jerry Saltz

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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. – Jerry Saltz

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Art
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Artschwagers art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing youre looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities. – Jerry Saltz

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Art
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Contrary to popular opinion, things dont go stale particularly fast in the art world. – Jerry Saltz

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Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon. – Tia Carrere

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. – John Keats

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Beauty

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. – Marcel Duchamp

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. – Stephen Hawking

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

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