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Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? — Rita Rudner

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

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

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. — Jonathan Miller

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom is like the moonlight that quietly inspires you. — Debasish Mridha

That all you got...Bub? — Joss Whedon

Every book should have a romance. — Jasper Fforde

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

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

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

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

Nothing is more short-lived than pride. — Ben Jonson

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

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

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

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