Dave Hickey Quotes

United States, Art Critic
December 5, 1940 – October, 0, 2021.

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. Nicknamed "The Bad Boy Of Art Criticism" and "The Enfant Terrible Of Art Criticism", he was formerly Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Distinguished Professor of Criticism for the MFA Program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Dave Hickey
- Mother
- Game
- Logic
If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Dave Hickey

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Dave Hickey
- America
- Church
- Goals
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Dave Hickey
- Art
- Political
- Hate
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.

Dave Hickey
- Church
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Dave Hickey
- People
- Art
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Dave Hickey
- Painting
I'm retiring because my time is up.

Dave Hickey
- Up
- Time