Jerry Saltz Quotes

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Jerry Saltz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkPerfectionDriveSickValues

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

Jewel

SeriousSometimesGeminiGoofySongs

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

John Cameron Mitchell

SuccessPeopleNobodySayFirst

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

John Berger

WallsBookVoiceStoryPlaceWill

The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'

Andrew Clements

SchoolBookPraiseKidRealHighest

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

John Henrik Clarke

MindControlWorldNothingAnything

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

LoveThinkKingsFantasyTurnOut

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Andy Goldsworthy

WorkGreatIdeasThoughtTestWhy

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

Merritt Wever

ThinkYouWrongPlaceFilmVibe

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

Amy Waldman

ImaginationResearchStorySkills

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

Steve Ballmer

BusinessTrustPeopleSome People

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

Sol LeWitt

MusicArtLiteratureMoreNarrative

I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it.

Ronnie Coleman

PainLongNowUsedBeenJust

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