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It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrinos work. From the time

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrinos work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. – Jerry Saltz

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Its art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isnt about progress, and wants to – as Walt Whitman put it – contain multitudes. – 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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Money is something that can be measured art is not. Its all subjective. – Jerry Saltz

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It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. – David Byrne

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. – Casey Stengel

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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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