286 Quotes by Jerry Saltz

You are always learning. At the end of each day, you know something you didn't know at the beginning. We're all learning on the job. This is true even when the thing you've learned is that you know less than you thought.

Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.

Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two.

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.