“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - ...” — Jerry Saltz Quote

“The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.”

“Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.”

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

“I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.”

“The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.”

“The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.”