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Robert Hughes has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Why wait for a call when you have a command?
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If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to…
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a…
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The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its…
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Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
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What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty…
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Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined…
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In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the…
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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and…
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It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,…
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
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I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study…
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
— David Nicholls
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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
— Jonathan Raymond
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With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a…
— Anuj Somany
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With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a…
— Anuj Somany
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