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People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.

Dave Hickey

Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.

Dave Hickey

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

Dave Hickey

Dave Hickey

Dave Hickey

Born: December 5, 1940

Died: November 12, 2021 (aged 80)

Bio: David Hickey was an art critic who has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair.

Known for:

Pirates and Farmers (2013)
25 Women: Essays on Their Art (2015)
The invisible dragon (1993)
Dreamland (2001)
The Book on Vegas (2006)

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