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I agree. He was very good and obviously better than his quite caricatured media profile suggests. I was just taking issue with his quote. Something I always really liked about him was the sense that he really loved art, which I don't think is true of a lot of critics at the moment. His attacks on a lot of recent art felt like they came from a deeply held belief that art should and could be better than this. It's just a shame that a lot of his views were picked up by those who just needed a justification to attack contemporary art altogether. He wasn't anti contemporary art. Some of his writing on artists like Sean Scully was incredibly insightful, and deeply sympathetic. I've even heard people say he's anti modern art, which is completely absurd.
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