Art Quote by Dave Hickey

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

— Dave Hickey

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

“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

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

— Dave Hickey

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

— Dave Hickey

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

— Dave Hickey

“...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

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

— Dave Hickey

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

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

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