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Dave Hickey quotes: I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

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

Dave Hickey quotes: Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement.

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

Dave Hickey quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Dave Hickey quotes: My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Dave Hickey quotes: Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

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

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

Dave Hickey quotes: Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

Dave Hickey quotes: Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

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

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

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

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

Dave Hickey quotes: Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

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

Dave Hickey quotes: When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

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

Dave Hickey quotes: 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.

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.

Dave Hickey quotes: I'm retiring because my time is up.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

Dave Hickey quotes: If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

Dave Hickey quotes: Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

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

Dave Hickey quotes: Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.