Peter Schjeldahl Quotes - Page 2

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• Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Beautiful, Thinking, Significance

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• There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Attitude, Differences, People

  "Reality Clicks" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2002.

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• 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

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• Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There's no more organized information.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Years, Funny Things, World

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• I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Writing, Mean, Laughing

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

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Teacher, Art, Generations

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• What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Desire, Care, Want

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• I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Distance, Mask, Critics

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• A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  May, Photograph, Instruments

  Peter Schjeldahl (2008). “Let's see: writings on art from the New Yorker”

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• 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

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• Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Way, Painting, Kind

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• There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Double Standard, Unfaithful, Standards

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• Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Artist, Sometimes, Telling The Truth

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• For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Reality, Role Playing, Roles

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• It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Ideas, Duty, Sells

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• I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Responsibility, Betrayed, Trust Me

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• I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Enough, Mediocre, Painter

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• I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  People, Looks, Different

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• Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

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• All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Mean, Artist, People

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• The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Given, Aesthetic, Persons

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• A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Artist, Cooking, Kitchen

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• Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Reactions, Physiological, Objects

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• Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Two, Emotion, Love And Fear

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• 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

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