The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. — Robert Hughes Desire Copy Share Image
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? — Robert Hughes Modernism Copy Share Image
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
“But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even… — Robert Hughes Catholic Copy Share Image
“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety… — Robert Hughes Customer Copy Share Image
It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become… — Robert Hughes Age Copy Share Image
If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into… — Robert Hughes Being successful Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Age Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined… — Robert Hughes Analysis Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Affording Copy Share Image
What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with… — Robert Hughes Cities Copy Share Image
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and… — Robert Hughes American education Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Argument Copy Share Image
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined… — Robert Hughes Abstraction Copy Share Image
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. — Robert Hughes Genius Copy Share Image
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his… — Robert Hughes Analysis Copy Share Image
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
“Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.” — Robert Hughes Computers Copy Share Image
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of… — Robert Hughes Australia Copy Share Image
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the… — Robert Hughes Age Copy Share Image
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