Quote by Jerry Saltz
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing th

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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Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. – Jerry Saltz

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History
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The Panorama is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing. – Jerry Saltz

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Morning
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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is arts version of Einsteins Theory of Relativity. Its the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. – Jerry Saltz

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Art
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To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over mens souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. – Emanuel Swedenborg

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Religion

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Religion

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. – Andrew Greeley

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Religion

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud

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Religion

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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. Were trying constantly to figure out whats OK and whats not OK. And its hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing. – Daniel H. Wilson

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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. – Johann von Goethe

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People first, then money, then things. – Suze Orman

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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. – Thom Yorke

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