Quote by Jerry Saltz
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing o

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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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because were not pure enough, good omens appear. – Jerry Saltz

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The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back. – Jerry Saltz

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In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we dont know what were seeing, we overreact. – Jerry Saltz

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. – Novalis

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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. – Edward Steichen

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Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse

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His soul palpitating with love of art… – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919 [referring to Dirk Stroeve &mda

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