Robert Hughes Quotes

» The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

» Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

» It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

» It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

» Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

» Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

» Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

» One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

» A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

» The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

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