52 Quotes by Peter Schjeldahl

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Death is like painting rather than like sculpture, because it’s seen from only one side.

Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

There’s a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There’s no more organized information.

Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque “Wilbur,” thereby becoming “Orville” in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.

It’s possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he’s still writing.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.