“...The efficacy of psychedelics with regard to art has to do with their ability to render language weightless, as fluid and ephemeral as those famous "bubble letters" of the sixties. Psychedelics, I think, disconnect both the signifier and the signified… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there.… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
