November 2012
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“Now don’t get me wrong, I actually enjoyed shooting weddings and people, and was pretty good at it as well. I had invested in the best gear I could afford, and enjoyed working with clients and producing quality images for them. But one day while browsing through my 50,000 photos that a really scary thought occurred to me: I don’t actually like any of my photos. Despite having thousands of technically good photos of brides, mayoral candidates, engaged couples, and families, not a single photo represented the whole reason I had gotten into photography in the first place.”
—The Best Thing I Ever Did Was Quit Professional Photography
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“Hickey says he came into art because of sex, drugs and artists like Robert Smithson, Richard Serra and Roy Lichtenstein who were “ferocious” about their work. “I don’t think you get that anymore. When I asked students at Yale what they planned to do, they all say move to Brooklyn – not make the greatest art ever.”
—Doyen of American critics turns his back on the ‘nasty, stupid’ world of modern art | Art and design | The Observer