Robert Hughes Quotes

"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Gossip)

"Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Sex, American, Painting, Psychoanalysis)

"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."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Action, Control, Being)

"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Artist, Confidence, Doubt)

"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Art, Job)

"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Evil, World)

"Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Art, Design, Work, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Soul, Machine, Tools, Will)

"It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
- Robert Hughes
(Related: Travel)