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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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like Im a flesh-eating virus. – Jerry Saltz

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Art
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When people in stadiums do the Wave, its the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. – Jerry Saltz

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Music
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Not to say people shouldnt get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. – Jerry Saltz

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We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it. – Christo

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To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty. – Samuel Butler

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Beauty

Truth isnt always beauty, but the hunger for it is. – Nadine Gordimer

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Beauty

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors. – Lee Scott

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