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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In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned. – Jerry Saltz

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The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The citys magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. – Jerry Saltz

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Art
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. – Jerry Saltz

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What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. – Aristotle

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Art

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing. – Billy Sunday

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Art

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. – Margot Fonteyn

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