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