Peter Schjeldahl Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Children, Discipline

• With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Criticism, Insane

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Memories

  "Looking Back" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2005.

• The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Beautiful, Art, Eye

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Eye

  "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.

• It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Political, Problem

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Writing, Significant

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Strong, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Teacher, Art, Generations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Writing, Covering

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Strong, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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