Dave Hickey Quotes
Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.
Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.
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.
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.
Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.
I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.
When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.
Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.
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.
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
