Jerry Saltz Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.”

“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”

“When art wins, everyone wins.”

“All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.”

“Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.”

“Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.”

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

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

“Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.”

“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.”