Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
“I’m going to talk about art as if you know nothing. I know nothing—that’s a thrilling place to be, because really, in front of every single work of art you’ve ever seen, you have never seen it before. And that to me is an amazing thing that we discount all the time. We begin to take that thrill, that otherness, that silence, even if it turns out to be crap, for granted. And I don’t want you ever to do that. Don’t think beforehand you know what’s good or bad, because you really don’t. When I first listened to the Talking Heads, I didn’t recognize it as music. It’s a nightmare.”--Jerry Saltz
“I’m going to talk about art as if you know nothing. I know nothing—that’s a thrilling place to be, because really, in front of every single work of art you’ve ever seen, you have never seen it before. And that to me is an amazing thing that we discount all the time. We begin to take that thrill, that otherness, that silence, even if it turns out to be crap, for granted. And I don’t want you ever to do that. Don’t think beforehand you know what’s good or bad, because you really don’t. When I first listened to the Talking Heads, I didn’t recognize it as music. It’s a nightmare.”--Jerry Saltz
