The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes 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 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 Copy Share Image
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself. — Robert Hughes 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 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 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 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 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 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
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not. — Robert Hughes 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 in numbers.… — Robert Hughes 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 glory and… — 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 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 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 of Cezanne's… — 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 Gaudi, who… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — 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 before –… — Robert Hughes 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 a giant… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
