Waldemar Januszczak Quotes

United Kingdom, Art Critic
January 12, 1954

Waldemar Januszczak is a British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he took the same role at The Sunday Times in 1992, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award.

Also known as Television Producer, Television Presenter

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

Waldemar Januszczak
- World
- Men
- Thinking
When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

Waldemar Januszczak
- Writing
- Art
- Started

One of the things I like most about Caravaggio is the sense of an unfolding emotional journey you get with his art. Early Caravaggios are sarky, confident, brazen. Late Caravaggio’s are dark, exhausted, tearful. A life put through the wringer.

Waldemar Januszczak
- Art
- Early
- Late
The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.

Waldemar Januszczak
- Art
- Artist
- Exist
What I hate most about this year's Turner Prize is how environmentally bad it is with all these videos, tv monitors, big soundscapes. The artists bang on about collectivity but with climate change they're selfish and reckless. Next year let's have a carbon neutral Turner Prize!

Waldemar Januszczak
All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.

Waldemar Januszczak
- Art
- Master
- Paints