Peter Schjeldahl Quotes

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

— Peter Schjeldahl

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing…. Everyone is portrayed in relation to a Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing…. Everyone is portrayed in relation to a

— Peter Schjeldahl

With art criticism it’s difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

With art criticism it’s difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because

— Peter Schjeldahl

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

— Peter Schjeldahl

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual

— Peter Schjeldahl

I’m absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

I’m absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same

— Peter Schjeldahl

Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It’s to protect something Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It’s to protect something

— Peter Schjeldahl

You don’t need everybody to agree with you, but you do need Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

You don’t need everybody to agree with you, but you do need

— Peter Schjeldahl

Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized

— Peter Schjeldahl

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their

— Peter Schjeldahl

Everybody’s got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Everybody’s got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have

— Peter Schjeldahl

There’s art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

There’s art that I would readily buy if I could afford it,

— Peter Schjeldahl

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the

— Peter Schjeldahl

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend

— Peter Schjeldahl

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response.

— Peter Schjeldahl

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a

— Peter Schjeldahl

Everything I’ve learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Everything I’ve learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested,

— Peter Schjeldahl

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when

— Peter Schjeldahl

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It’s really hard. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

The artist is a strange being. I think it’s safe to say Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

The artist is a strange being. I think it’s safe to say

— Peter Schjeldahl

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and,

— Peter Schjeldahl

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren’t expected Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren’t expected

— Peter Schjeldahl

I do have pleasure when I’m writing. I mean, I’m aware of Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

I do have pleasure when I’m writing. I mean, I’m aware of

— Peter Schjeldahl

My problem with political art is not that it’s bad art necessarily, Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

My problem with political art is not that it’s bad art necessarily,

— Peter Schjeldahl

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything

— Peter Schjeldahl

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it

— Peter Schjeldahl

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it’s hard work. You Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it’s hard work. You

— Peter Schjeldahl

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving

— Peter Schjeldahl

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were

— Peter Schjeldahl

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right

— Peter Schjeldahl

Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object. Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

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

— Peter Schjeldahl

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque “Wilbur,” thereby becoming “Orville” in their Wright Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque “Wilbur,” thereby becoming “Orville” in their Wright

— Peter Schjeldahl

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing

— Peter Schjeldahl

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to Peter Schjeldahl Picture Quote

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to

— Peter Schjeldahl

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