"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the……" — Robert Hughes
"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
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21 Quotes by Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes has 21 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in…
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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…
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Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal…
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In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I…
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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to…
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It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of…
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
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More Cathedral Quotes
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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and…
— Tony Campolo
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The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral…
— Unknown Author
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A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.
— Jan Carlzon
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full…
— Violette Leduc
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Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone…
— John Goddard
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
— Alan Garner
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Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor,…
— Arthur Compton
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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new…
— Margaret Mead
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