Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. - Dave Hickey
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
- Dave Hickey
In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn'… - Dave Hickey
In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn'…
In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of th… - 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 pleasure of th…
Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character … - Dave Hickey
Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character …
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. - 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 don't.
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. - Dave Hickey
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe… - Dave Hickey
Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe…
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it. - Dave Hickey
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.
Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway. - Dave Hickey
Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.
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