There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.
Peter SchjeldahlFor Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.
Peter SchjeldahlThe dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.
Peter SchjeldahlYou could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.
Peter Schjeldahl