“I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't… — 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 so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This… — 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 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 tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse… — 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 Image
