The 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 SchjeldahlPicasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.
Peter SchjeldahlThere'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 Schjeldahl