The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. — Robert Hughes Art 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
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
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Another 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
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? — Robert Hughes Modernism Copy Share Image
“But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.” — Robert Hughes Appropriate 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
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
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
“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
“The failure of language—the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection—fed the ruling class’s belief that it was endangered from below.” — Robert Hughes Character 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 Critic 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
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content… — Robert Hughes Artist Copy Share Image
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an… — Robert Hughes Active 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 Add Copy Share Image
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This… — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Affair 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
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
“We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lifetime.… — Robert Hughes Art 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 Affirmation Copy Share Image
Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. — Robert Hughes Aggression 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
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
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
“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
“Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public” — Robert Hughes Arena 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
We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal. — Robert Hughes Appeals Copy Share Image
Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call… — Robert Hughes Began 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
![“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 be missing something. We are probably not. We have to discard. We have to throw things away…” quote by Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c8f/robert-hughes-9113_art_we-are-now-exposed-to-more-images-in-a-d_3147702.jpg)
