Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Jerry Saltz Quotes: The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
         

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.


Jerry Saltz
Check all other quotes by Jerry Saltz

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Jerry Saltz Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Fri. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-greatest-work-of-art-about-New-710361>.





Check out


Other quotes of Jerry Saltz


John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.



To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.



Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.



All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.



The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.



A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.



The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.



Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.



In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.



Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.





Other quotes you may like


In Life, What Would Be Best For You, You Know It Best....

In Life, What Would Be Best For You, You Know It Best....




People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.



We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.



Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.



Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?

Some people wouldn't say I coached in the National Football League. I coached with the Raiders, right?



I never change, I simply become more myself.

I never change, I simply become more myself.



Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.

Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.



Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?



With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.". Author of this quote is Jerry Saltz. This quote is about seems, new york, magic, work, art, majesty, cities,.