Jerry Saltzi is an art critic from the United States. He has been a senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine since 2006. Also He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times as the senior art critic for The Village Voice. He has also served as a visiting critic at Columbia University, Yale University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the sole advisor for the New York Studio Residency Program.

Here are some of the Best Jerry Saltzs Quotes for your timelines:

1. “Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?”
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2. “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.”
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3. “When people in stadiums do the Wave, it’s the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.”
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5. “Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.”
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Best Long Quotes:

5. “Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.”
6. “’Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,’ the Whitney Museum’s 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it’ll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.”
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7. “Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.”
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8. “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.”
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9. “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.”
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10. “Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.”
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Bonus Quotes:

11. “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.”
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12. “Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.”
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