"Why wait for a call when you have…" — Robert Hughes
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21 Quotes by Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes has 21 quotes on this site.
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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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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke…
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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