All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other. - Peter Schjeldahl
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.
- Peter Schjeldahl
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. - Peter Schjeldahl
A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind. - Peter Schjeldahl
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. - Peter Schjeldahl
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. - Peter Schjeldahl
Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.
Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time … - Peter Schjeldahl
Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time …
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. - Peter Schjeldahl
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing an… - Peter Schjeldahl
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing an…
The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist ab… - Peter Schjeldahl
The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist ab…
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