Occupation: Art Critic Birth: March 20, 1942
Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing..
Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of co….
I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful..
Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assuran….
Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast..
To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal..
There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant..
I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a complet….
Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion..
Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of pe….
Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I wa….
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard..
The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is….
The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera ha….
There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera..
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capaciti….
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and ….
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pict….
A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation..
Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation..
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing..