Audience Quote by Robert Hughes

“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

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and…

— Robert Hughes

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

— Robert Hughes

There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

— Robert Hughes

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

— Robert Hughes

“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.”

— Robert Hughes

“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

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

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before –…

— Robert Hughes

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

— 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…

— Robert Hughes