The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!
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 SchjeldahlMy problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
Peter Schjeldahl