“An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.” PeopleMenMindArtistPassionIndividualCreativeTalentIndependentDrivenContraryMysteriousHopelessPeculiarUnusualSensibilityNeuroticNeurosisCrippled Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“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.” PeopleShouldChildrenArtSaidHelpingArtistSubjectsDisciplineAdultsCapacitySacredConvictionInnocenceIrrationalArt EducationBaudelaire Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.” PeopleDifferencesAttitudeCamerasIneffable Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.” PeopleIfsWritingArtStillsCriticsArt Critic Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.” PeopleLooksDifferentConvincedSettingSettingsPhysiological Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?” PeopleIfsWorldWantMeanArtistCreativeUnhappyCreative PeopleHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.” PeopleIfsNeedsDoubtDegreesJudgmentAgreeSanity Author:Peter Schjeldahl
