With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.
Peter SchjeldahlThe 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 Schjeldahl