Quote by Jerry Saltz
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking. – Jerry Saltz

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When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I wont miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the Eventocracy. All this flashy art-fair art and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event. – 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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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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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. – Charles Baudelaire

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The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. – Jerry Saltz

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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. – Agnes Martin

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

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