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Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. I

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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Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. Theres likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdams or Hamburgs galleries. – Jerry Saltz

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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like Im a flesh-eating virus. – Jerry Saltz

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John Currins exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. – Jerry Saltz

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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Art is art, even when unsuccessful. – Danish Proverb

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. – Margot Fonteyn

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