"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt." — Robert Hughes

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt."

— Robert Hughes

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21 Quotes by Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in…
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…
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal…
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I…
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to…
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of…
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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