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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A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, The Clock is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman. – Jerry Saltz

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Art
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In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didnt exist online, it didnt exist at all. It showed me criticisms future. – Jerry Saltz

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Future
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. – Lincoln Steffens

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After a few months in my parents basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. – David Sedaris

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Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. – Jerry Saltz

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