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> [“But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/but-the-existence-of-a-cult-does-not-mean-that-images-appropriate-to/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/559/robert-hughes-9113_appropriate_but-the-existence-of-a-cult-does-not-mea_1424008.jpg)

> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/we-are-now-exposed-to-more-images-in-a-day-than-anyone-in-the-14th/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8f/robert-hughes-9113_art_we-are-now-exposed-to-more-images-in-a-d_3147702.jpg)

## Other authors on Images

## More by Robert Hughes

> [“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/most-of-the-time-they-buy-what-other-people-buy-they-move-in-great/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/the-basic-project-of-art-is-always-to-make-the-world-whole-and/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/confidence-is-the-prize-given-to-the-mediocre/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/there-s-no-geist-like-the-zeitgeist/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/a-gustave-courbet-portrait-of-a-trout-has-more-death-in-it-than/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/in-one-sense-duchamp-s-the-large-glass-is-a-glimpse-into-hell-a/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/indeed-the-idea-that-doubt-can-be-heroic-if-it-is-locked-into-a/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/one-thing-is-sure-the-sagrada-familia-is-the-first-catholic-temple/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/what-strip-mining-is-to-nature-the-art-market-has-become-to-culture/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/for-the-machine-meant-the-conquest-of-horizontal-space-it-also-meant/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/it-was-a-secular-cathedral-dedicated-to-the-rites-of-travel/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/the-world-s-fair-audience-tended-to-think-of-the-machine-as/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/what-has-our-culture-lost-in-1980-that-the-avant-garde-had-in-1890/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/on-the-whole-money-does-artists-much-more-good-than-harm-the-idea/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

> [Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/popular-in-our-time-unpopular-in-his-so-runs-the-stereotype-of/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

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