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The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. – Jerry Saltz

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Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors. – Jerry Saltz

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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. – Jerry Saltz

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Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts. – Jerry Saltz

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. – Paracelsus

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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. – Stella Adler

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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

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