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> [Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/everything-i-ve-learned-about-art-was-a-because-i-was-actually/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

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## More by Peter Schjeldahl

> [A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/a-word-is-a-thought-of-course-but-any-image-including-a-photograph/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/artists-are-people-who-are-subject-to-irrational-convictions-of-the/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/you-don-t-need-everybody-to-agree-with-you-but-you-do-need-a-few/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/i-think-being-interested-is-really-what-being-civilized-is-about-i/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/beauty-is-a-physiological-reaction-beauty-is-not-an-object/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/i-have-painted-enough-to-have-a-lot-of-respect-for-mediocre-painters/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/artists-are-sometimes-in-a-position-to-tell-the-truth-but-they-re/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/the-aesthetic-experience-has-to-be-given-and-beauty-is-a-regular/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/everything-i-ve-learned-about-art-was-a-because-i-was-actually/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/matisse-can-make-you-hate-your-life-for-its-comparatively-insipid-joys/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/beauty-makes-us-more-like-ourselves-and-more-like-each-other/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/everybody-s-got-plants-but-most-are-just-growing-weeds-the-cultivated/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/i-find-that-the-mask-of-the-critic-is-to-have-distance/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/picasso-had-nicknamed-georges-braque-wilbur-thereby-becoming-orville/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

> [All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-schjeldahl/all-artists-and-creative-people-are-basically-unhappy-people-if-you/)

[Peter Schjeldahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-schjeldahl/)

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