"The basic project of art is always to……" — Robert Hughes
"The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world."
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21 Quotes by Robert Hughes
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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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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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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
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