Quotes by Jerry Saltz

About Jerry Saltz:

Jerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. He has also served as a visiting critic at The School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the New York Studio Residency Program, and was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. He lives in New York City with his wife Roberta Smith, senior art critic for the New York Times.
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When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

Jerry Saltz

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-b...

Jerry Saltz

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

Jerry Saltz

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

Jerry Saltz

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

Jerry Saltz

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

Jerry Saltz

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

Jerry Saltz

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

Jerry Saltz

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

Jerry Saltz

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.

Jerry Saltz

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets o...

Jerry Saltz

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

Jerry Saltz

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

Jerry Saltz

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Jerry Saltz

I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists d...

Jerry Saltz

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Jerry Saltz

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

Jerry Saltz

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

Jerry Saltz

As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.

Jerry Saltz

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

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Author Bio

  • NameJerry Saltz
  • DescriptionAmerican art historian
  • BornFebruary 19, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArt Historian; Historian