Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.
Jerry SaltzA lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
Jerry SaltzChris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.
Jerry SaltzThe forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
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