Dave Hickey's Quotes
Born: 1940-12-05
Profession: Critic
Nation: American
Biography of Dave Hickey
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
Tags: Art, Hate, PoliticalIf I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
Tags: Everyone, Him, TalkIt 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.
Tags: Painting, Understand, UsedMartha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
Tags: Baptist, Church, CivilityMy mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
Tags: Game, Logic, MotherWhere 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.
Tags: America, Learn, Sacrifice