7 Quotes by Brian Sewell

I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied,

This is another example of meritless gigantism that could be anywhere, and is the least successful of the gallery's six attempts to exploit its most unsympathetic space.

A memorial garden will be tacky. We should put the money into supporting things that Diana did and was interested in.

It's the way neighborhoods were developed many years ago. Think University Park and Highland Park; the design intent is very similar.