Robert Hughes Quotes

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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

The protein of our cultural imagination.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It`s like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don`t have any control over the action going on upstairs.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.