Andrew O'Hagan Art Quotations

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring - and where the sea might deposit you - until one day you know you have lived between two places, the scene of arrival and the point of departure.