"What has our culture lost in 1980 that……" — Robert Hughes
"What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants."
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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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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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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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