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"Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease."

Jerry Saltz on Religion

More quotes about Religion

  • "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

    Dalai Lama on Religion

  • "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

  • "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

    Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Jerry Saltz

  • "Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age."

  • "Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing."

  • "There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says."

  • "First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity."

  • "All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy."

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