Radically Changing Quotes by Robert Hughes

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• Why wait for a call when you have a command?
• If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to…
• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a…
• The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its…
• Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
• What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty…
• Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined…
• In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the…
• What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and…
• It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew,…
• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

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