Quote by Jerry Saltz
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah,

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism. – Jerry Saltz

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Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease. – 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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When people in stadiums do the Wave, its the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. – Jerry Saltz

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

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In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. – Marc Chagall

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Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. – Andy Warhol

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Id love to go to art school. Id love to learn how to draw. Id love to be fluent in Spanish. Id like to be a brain surgeon. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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