Quote by Jerry Saltz
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month f

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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Were all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. Were also allowed to change or modify our opinions. – Jerry Saltz

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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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Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art. – Jerry Saltz

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Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors. – Jerry Saltz

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they dont have for something they dont need. – Will Rogers

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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. – Georges Rouault

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