Art Quote by Dave Hickey

“I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.” quote by Dave Hickey — Download Open image

“I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.”

Dave Hickey

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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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“...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…

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