Robert Hughes Quotes
Robert Hughes Quotes
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
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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.
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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
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The protein of our cultural imagination.
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
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