"Now people look at ‘The Scream’ or Van Gogh’s ‘Irises’ or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value."
― Jerry Saltz
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― Jerry Saltz
More From Jerry Saltz
- "Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I’ve heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast."
- "Calling a young artist ‘great’ these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade."
- "Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There’s likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdam’s or Hamburg’s galleries."
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- "Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement."― Samuel Prout
- "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations."― Thomas Jefferson
- "I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’"― Demetri Martin