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
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. — Robert Hughes Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to… — Robert Hughes Analysis 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
“Wherever they went they were plagued by mosquitoes, against which they employed the deterrent of fish oil: “It is by no means… — Robert Hughes Two years 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 Art 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
“But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.” — Robert Hughes Appropriate 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
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Attorney 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with… — Robert Hughes Cities Copy Share Image
Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. — Robert Hughes Aggression 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 Age 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
“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
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his… — Robert Hughes Analysis 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
“Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public” — Robert Hughes Arena 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
