Quote by Jerry Saltz
Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many peopl

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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Ive always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. – Jerry Saltz

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I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood Im in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good. – 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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Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see. – Paul Klee

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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb – where the word art never came up – to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it. – Jerry Saltz

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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I cant bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. – David Herbert Lawrence

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