Chaos Quote by Robert Hughes Download Open image ““that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”” — Robert Hughes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chaos Character City Morality
“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“You wander through this city, and wonder if anything you do will make up for the horror that keeps the world turning. To live,… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“But nothing lasts forever. This city is changing for the worse. Sure it's getting bigger and it looks nicer, but the novelties are disappearing.… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
“Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers.… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Hughes Copy Share
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the… — Robert Hughes Copy Share
“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If I meet a wise person, I think, 'Yes, tell me more about parenting, about marriage, about how to stay in love. Tell me… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view… — Timothy Leary Copy Share
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In the ring, there's not a lot of room for mistakes. You're in a place that is chaos, that is on fire. That ring… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga)… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
