Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway. Dave Hickey More Quotes by Dave Hickey More Quotes From Dave Hickey My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. Dave Hickey mother games math The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does." Dave Hickey writing two ideas I'm retiring because my time is up. Dave Hickey retiring my-time Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals. Dave Hickey rome sacrifice thinking Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. Dave Hickey editors class art Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain. Dave Hickey apologizing gossip complaining If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been. Dave Hickey not-interested london want As my friend Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe has argued persuasively, there is an element of positivity in the visible world, and in color particularly, that totally eludes the historicity of language, with its protocols of absence and polarity. The color red, as an attribute of the world, is always there. It is something other than the absence of yellow and blue--and, thus, when that red becomes less red, it becomes more one or the other. It never exists in a linguistic condition of degradation or excess that must necessarily derive from our expectations. Dave Hickey positivity color blue