Robert Hughes Quotes
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A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
— Robert Hughes
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
— Robert Hughes
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
— Robert Hughes
You could not have done it better than Hughes.
— Robert Pape
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
— Robert Hughes
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.
— Robert Hughes
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
— Robert Hughes
In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.
— Robert Hughes
It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.
— 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
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.
— Robert Hughes
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
— Robert Hughes
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think ... that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.
— Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
— Robert Hughes
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
— Robert Hughes
that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.
— Robert Hughes
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
— Robert Hughes
I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.
— Robert Coppola Schwartzman
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.
— Robert Hughes
It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
— Peter Schjeldahl
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
— Robert Hughes
But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.
— Robert Hughes
losing it on the world. But even if the
— Robert Don Hughes
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
— Robert Hughes
Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?
— Robert Hughes
