A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers. – Jerry Saltz
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously. – Jerry Saltz
Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools – only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art. – Jerry Saltz
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. – Jerry Saltz
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. – Jerry Saltz
All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places. – Jerry Saltz
When art wins, everyone wins. – Jerry Saltz
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. – Jerry Saltz
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe. – Jerry Saltz
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. – Jerry Saltz
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art. – Jerry Saltz
The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back. – Jerry Saltz
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. – Jerry Saltz
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. – Jerry Saltz
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. – Jerry Saltz
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. – Jerry Saltz
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity. – Jerry Saltz
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. – Jerry Saltz
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. – Jerry Saltz
