The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.
Peter SchjeldahlEverybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.
Peter SchjeldahlFor Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
Peter SchjeldahlYou don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a fairly high degree of confidence in my judgment, in that I don't doubt my sanity; or, even if I do, I don't have to be reassured.
Peter SchjeldahlBlack and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.
Peter Schjeldahl