In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal… — 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
“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
I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it. — Dave Hickey Copy Share
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
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
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey Copy Share
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
“...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
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
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
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
Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a… — Dave Hickey Copy Share
In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that… — Dave Hickey Copy Share
