Jerry Saltz Way Quotations

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.

I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.