The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. — Robert Hughes Cathedral Copy Share Image
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Character Copy Share Image
Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. — Robert Hughes Crucifixion Copy Share Image
We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.” — Robert Hughes Hell Copy Share Image
“Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. — Robert Hughes Aggression Copy Share Image
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content… — Robert Hughes Artist Copy Share Image
On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“The failure of language—the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection—fed the ruling class’s belief that it was endangered from below.” — Robert Hughes Character Copy Share Image
“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as… — Robert Hughes Audience Copy Share Image
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a… — Robert Hughes Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Affirmation Copy Share Image
“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime.… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Affair Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This… — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Attorney Copy Share Image
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to… — Robert Hughes Analysis Copy Share Image
“Wherever they went they were plagued by mosquitoes, against which they employed the deterrent of fish oil: “It is by no means… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced… — Robert Hughes Church Copy Share Image
“But aesthetic value does not rise from the work's apparent ability to predict a future: we do not admire Cézanne because of… — Robert Hughes Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
![“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime. [...] Most of it is garbage. Most of it needs excising. Even if we’re fearful that we might be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away…” quote by Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c8f/robert-hughes-9113_art_we-are-now-exposed-to-more-images-in-a-d_3147702.jpg)
