I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.
Peter SchjeldahlMinimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.
Peter SchjeldahlMy problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.
Peter SchjeldahlA word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.
Peter Schjeldahl