Dave Hickey Quotes

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• Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.
• Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
• Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
• 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…
• 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 don't,
• Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.
• I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free…
• I'm retiring because my time is up.
• Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to…
• Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.
• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
• My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
• Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

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