Brian Sewell’s best cutting critiques – in quotes

The controversial art critic, who has died aged 84, made his name through his withering putdowns. Here, the Guardian remembers some of the most infamousOn David Hockney“Hockney is not another Turner expressing, in high seriousness, his debt to the old master; Hockney is not another Picasso teasing Velázquez and Delacroix with not quite enough wit; here Hockney is a vulgar prankster, trivialising not only a painting that he is incapable of understanding and could never execute, but i