Talking art and criticism with Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee.
”There’s an egotistical appeal, when you’re younger, to expressing, in emphatic language, what you don’t like about stuff. It’s part of a fairly natural process (to put a forgiving spin on it): trying to make the world a slightly friendlier place for you and your sensibilities. But as you get older I think you give up, just a little, on that urge. You realise that the world doesn’t need to conform to your sensibilities to be interesting, and that in fact your sensibilities could do with some expanding.”
Read the interview HERE