“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety… — Robert Hughes 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
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
“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
“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
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
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes Art 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
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. — Robert Hughes Cathedral 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
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
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
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. — Robert Hughes Genius Copy Share Image
The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself. — 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
“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
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
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? — Robert Hughes Should 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 Piano Player 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
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
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
