Jerry Saltz Quotes

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Jerry Saltz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1951

Topics

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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GodMyselfKnowShouldForbid

I grew up on a farm and didn't have connections, and I had a dream that I believed in, and I felt passionate about it, so if I can instill hope into somebody too with the film, that's what I most want.

Jeremy Scott

HopeConnectionsFarmDreamI Can

When I traveled around the country visiting women in their own homes and talking to them about their closets, every woman lamented about 'settling' for many of the pieces in her closet.

Jennifer Hyman

WomenWomanTalkingTraveledCountry

I always fancied myself an outdoorsman, even though I'm a Jewish guy from the East Coast.

Michael Finkel

MyselfAlwaysJewishGuyEvenEast

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Tracy K. Smith

BrooklynKindRetreatWriter

I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.

Rod Stewart

MorningMyselfSeeI SeePrettyToo

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

MomentCloudsMindSerenityKindUp

When I go out shopping and pass a bookstore, I always grab a couple of cookbooks, so I have a library of them. I end up keeping many that I got years and years ago because they work so well.

Johnny Mathis

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We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

Brad Pitt

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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

ArtFireSparkArtistBornCreate

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

Anthony Joshua

DisciplineSchoolMeBoxingMost

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Athol Fugard

LifeGoodFatherMusicMeMy Life

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