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The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folk

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because were not pure enough, good omens appear. – Jerry Saltz

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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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Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because hes the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways hes the weirdest (which is saying a lot when youre talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers). – Jerry Saltz

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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades – even if its now close to aesthetic kudzu. – Jerry Saltz

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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say Ive a call. – Sylvia Plath

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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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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. – Maya Lin

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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesnt seem like its any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war. – R. Lee Ermey

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An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. – Billy Sunday

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Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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