All Robert Hughes Quotes
- Why wait for a call when you have a command? Call
- If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you… Arsenal
- The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Art
- A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. Accomplish
- The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its… Achieved
- Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre Confidence
- 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 to… All
- Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… Abstraction
- In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words… Age
- What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? Amuse
- It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one… Any
- The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Artist
- Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. Genius
- Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. Another World
- It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. Basilica
- It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. Cathedral
- Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. Art
- Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. American
- The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. Art
- 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… Action
- An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none… Audience