Brian Sewell Quotes

Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell was an English art critic and media personality. He wrote for the Evening Standard and was noted for his acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize.

Birth: July 15, 1931 - Death: September 19, 2015

I don’t know what art is, but I do know what it isn’t. And it isn’t someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

Topic(s): Art , Political , Lows

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Topic(s): Men , Capable , Greatness

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Brian Sewell Quotes