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Dave Hickey Quotes

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege Picture Quote #1

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals Picture Quote #1

I don’t think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists Picture Quote #1

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn’t lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It’s a set of propositions about how things should look Picture Quote #1

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class Picture Quote #1

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it Picture Quote #1

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Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway Picture Quote #1

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence Picture Quote #1

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art Picture Quote #1

I’m retiring because my time is up Picture Quote #1

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My mother was an economics professor. I’m proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that Picture Quote #1

Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement Picture Quote #1

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Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege (Dave Hickey Quotes) Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals (Dave Hickey Quotes) I don’t think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists. (Dave Hickey Quotes) I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn’t lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It’s a set of propositions about how things should look. (Dave Hickey Quotes) Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class (Dave Hickey Quotes) Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it. (Dave Hickey Quotes) Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. (Dave Hickey Quotes) 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. (Dave Hickey Quotes) Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway (Dave Hickey Quotes) Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence (Dave Hickey Quotes) I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art (Dave Hickey Quotes) I’m retiring because my time is up (Dave Hickey Quotes) My mother was an economics professor. I’m proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that (Dave Hickey Quotes) Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement (Dave Hickey Quotes)