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“Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.”

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Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl is a renowned art critic, born on March 20, 1942. His review works cover a wide range of modern and contemporary art, and have had a profound impact on the art world. more

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“The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.”

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“With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.”

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“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.”

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“It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.”

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“Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.”

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“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.”

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“Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.”

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“For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.”

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“Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.”

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