There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.
Peter SchjeldahlThe problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless.
Peter SchjeldahlThere is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.
Peter SchjeldahlMy problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
Peter Schjeldahl