Quotes by Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

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A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it’s great.

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A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

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May

Photograph

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?

Artist

Mean

People

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.

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Independent

Passion

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who’s strong enough to shed new light on it.

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Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

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Generations

Teacher

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren’t expected to talk about their writing.

Artist

Expected

Writing

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.

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Children

Discipline

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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Sometimes

Telling The Truth

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Quotes by Peter Schjeldahl

Peter Schjeldahl

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it’s great.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

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?

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who’s strong enough to shed new light on it.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren’t expected to talk about their writing.

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.

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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