Jerry Saltz Quotes
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
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The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."
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Art to be art must soothe.
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It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
