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

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

Robert Hughes quotes: Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

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

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.

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 quotes: 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?

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 quotes: I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

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

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

Robert Hughes quotes: In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

Robert Hughes quotes: It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

Robert Hughes quotes: What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: In one sense, (Duchamp's) "The Large Glass" is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.

Robert Hughes quotes: Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Robert Hughes quotes: Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think ... that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

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 quotes: The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Robert Hughes quotes: Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

Robert Hughes quotes: It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

Robert Hughes quotes: America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

Robert Hughes quotes: Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Robert Hughes quotes: Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

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

Robert Hughes quotes: The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

Robert Hughes quotes: We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

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 quotes: 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?

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 quotes: Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Robert Hughes quotes: Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public