More From Jerry Saltz
- "Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn’t any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument."
- "Not to say people shouldn’t get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic."
- "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."
More In Art
- "Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."― Thomas Carlyle
- "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person."― Abraham Lincoln
- "Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness."― Jerry Saltz