Jerry Quotes

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

Paul Konerko is one of the greatest players in White Sox history, not only for his strength and performance on the field, but also for his heart and leadership off the field.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that's the way it should be.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

Most injuries require chiropractic care. It works better for me than anything else.

Even though at 17 it was limited, I had a life before Batman.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

When art wins, everyone wins.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on Art.

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

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

Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.