Waldemar Januszczak Quotes
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When I started writing about art, there were no curators.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.