41 Quotes by Dave Hickey

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason--telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where 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.