Dave Hickey Quotes

• El mal gusto es el verdadero gusto, por supuesto, y el buen gusto es el residuo del privilegio ajeno.

  Dave Hickey

  Real, Taste, Privilege

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• With the artists, I don't teach, I coach. I can't tell them how to make art. I tell them to make more art. I tell them to get up early and stay up late. I tell them not to quit. I tell them if somebody else is already making their work. My job is to be current with the discourse and not be an asshole. That's all I wanted in a professor.

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  Art, Jobs, Up Early

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.

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  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• La belleza es y siempre será el cielo azul y la carretera abierta.

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  Blue, Sky, Blue Sky

  Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

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  Beautiful, Art, Seductive

  Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

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• Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

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  Art, People, Political

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

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  Fun, Powerful, Issues

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• Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.

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  Real, Creer, Hombres

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• Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

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  Silence, Perversity, Sheer

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• In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

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  Pensar, Años, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

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  Smart, Character, Artist

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• 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.

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  Painting, Used, Obligation

  "Doyen of American critics turns his back on the 'nasty, stupid' world of modern art". Interview with Edward Helmore and Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Art, Feelings, Looks

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

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  Art, Thinking, Government

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.

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  Gossip, Complaining, Apologizing

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• 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.

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  Ears, Purses, Succeed

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• Jazz presumes that it would be nice if the four of us-simpatico dudes that we are-while playing this complicated song together, might somehow be free and autonomous as well. Tragically, this never quite works out. At best, we can only be free one or two at a time-while the other dudes hold onto the wire. Which is not to say that no one has tried to dispense with wires. Many have, and sometimes it works-but it doesn't feel like jazz when it does. The music simply drifts away into the stratosphere of formal dialectic, beyond our social concerns.

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  Song, Nice, Two

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• In images,... beauty was the agency that caused visual pleasure in the beholder; and any theory of images that was not grounded in the pleasure of the beholder begged the question of their efficacy and doomed itself to inconsequence.

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  Agency, Pleasure, Beholder

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• 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.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, Rome

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• La idea del contenido político es irrelevante. El contenido es irrelevante. Siempre les digo a mis alumnos: "¡Nunca olvidéis que estáis escribiendo palabras! Ya sabes, palabra uno, palabra dos, palabra tres, palabra cuatro. Las palabras tienen que estar organizadas. Nada más".

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  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

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  Jobs, Quality, Doe

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

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  Thinking, Easy, Like Something

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

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  Church, Baptists, Civility

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• I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

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  Art, Hate, Book

  "Surfing into the Sunset". Interview with Sarah Douglas, www.vanityfair.com. October 24, 2012.

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• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

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  Want, London, Not Interested

  "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.

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