Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know,… — 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
