“Every good artist is an outsider artist, in a way that counts; and every good critic is an outsider critic, in a way that counts. Good art and good criticism are not ‘practices’—that horrible word, so prevalent in art babble lately. Practices are professional specialties. Associated with art, the word assumes settled social agreements on what artists do. This may comfort the moms and dads of art students, casting their children’s choice of career as akin to medicine or the law. Like all jargon, it lets us rattle on about something without feeling, and thereby doubting, the relative truth and value in what we say.”
Peter Schjeldahl,
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 (2019), p. 379
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