Philipp Rimmler

“Your brilliant offer means nothing if your prospect can’t explain it to their boss in one sentence.”

There’s something you get at about why we pay attention to certain things and collect them...that is different than a cynical and algorithmic view of taste...Our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place or thing that introduces them to us. In that way, taste is a lot more similar to love... See more

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.

We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.

We thrive on negative criticism.

Which is fun to write and to read.

But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk, is probably more

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“I think there’s a misguided belief that self-development makes us better people. But if we want to be better people we have to focus on others, not ourselves. At some point, I realized this and changed tack. Rather than ask what I needed, I asked what my community needed.”

red wine and enthusiasm were a good combo

the art world rather craves context or historicity or narrative, situating works within some cultural framework.