Artists must also reckon with the uncanny feeling that by the time we’ve finished a new work, we’ve often ended up creating something different from what we set out to do. This feeling of surprise, of the unexpected, can delight or disappoint us. … The creative process is an inexplicable, inspired, crystallizing place where the artist becomes an audience to the work, almost doesn’t know where it came from.

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About Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz (born 19 March 1951) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine.

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