Jerry Saltz Quotes

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Jerry Saltz

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Long
  • Country
  • High

• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Knowledge
  • Complete
  • Supreme

• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Fun
  • Food
  • Style

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Want
  • Speak
  • Find

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • True
  • Health

• I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Time
  • Help
  • Free

• I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Home
  • Night
  • Fight

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Athlete

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • Food
  • Garden

• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Guy

• I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium mine, not your calf for fattening, not your cow for milking. You may not use me as your factory. Priests and legislators do not hold shares in my womb or my mind. If I give it to you, I want it back. My life is a non-negotiable demand.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• The one dream I have is to do a musical. I love singing, but most people don't know because I don't sell myself as a musical person. My dream is to play Audrey in 'Little Shop of Horrors' - it would be so interesting to have an Asian Audrey because it's all about achieving the American dream in a sinister, success-driven way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Design

• Folks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid nitrogen and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Tree

• Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • American
  • Aesthetic