286 Quotes by Jerry Saltz

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.