Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. — Robert Hughes American 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
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined… — Robert Hughes Brain 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
At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become… — Robert Hughes Age 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
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 Cosmetics Copy Share Image
In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
“Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.” — Robert Hughes Computers 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
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Affording 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 Children christmas Copy Share Image
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a… — Robert Hughes Accomplish Copy Share Image
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Another 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
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. — Robert Hughes America Copy Share Image
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ Modernism's… — Robert Hughes Art Copy Share Image
It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of… — 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
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
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. — Robert Hughes Boat Copy Share Image
