"Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class."

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Source : "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art" by Edward Helmore, Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

Dave Hickey

#Art Quotes #Editors Quotes #Class Quotes

“Agisci come se quel che fai, facesse la differenza. La fa!”
“A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change.”
“I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.”

Source : St. Leonard of Port Maurice “Sacred Treasures of the Mass”, Lulu.com
“My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.”
“Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.”

Source : Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.59, Vintage
“You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.”
“Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.”
“I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.”

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