Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested … - Peter Schjeldahl

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There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'

Peter Schjeldahl

Everything I've learned about art was (a) because I was actually interested, or (b) I was actually interested in covering my ass because of what I was writing about.

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

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Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

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To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

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I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

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The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

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