Jerry Saltz Quotes
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.
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When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
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It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
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Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other way around, so they're going to do whatever they want to do.
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We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.
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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
