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Robert Hughes Quotes

«The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | About: Art | Keywords: consolation, Less Than Perfect
«[It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: cathedral, dedicated, rites, secular, The Rite
«A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: Loafer, loafers, machine shop, monkey, monkey wrench, rusty, shop, wrench, wrenches, wrenching
«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.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | About: Criticism | Keywords: piano, piano player, player piano, the Action, upstairs, whorehouse, whorehouses
«Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: landscape, psychoanalysis, Sex and
«Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: conveyed, literal, sublimation, transportation
«[The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: en masse, exile, masse, monuments, prisons
«A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: Courbet, crucifixion, crucifixions, Gustave Courbet, portrait, Rubens
«Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort.»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: canvases, deliriously, finance, finances, galleries, high finance, porn, ripest, woven
«We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism»
Author: Robert Hughes (Author, Critic) | Keywords: dip, dipping, dips, dispelled, euphemism, euphemisms
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