Robert Hughes Quotes

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

Confidence, Doubt, Perfect

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

Soul, Determined, Accomplish

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

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

Gossip, Inside, Dope

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

Travel, Dedicated, Secular

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

Sex, American, Painting

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

Work, Art, Design

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

Time, Genius, Popular

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

Evil, Another, Literal

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Critic

Born: July 28, 1938

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