"One gets tired of the role critics are……" — Robert Hughes
"One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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