Quotes of Robert Hughes - somelinesforyou

“ For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ The prisons are the monuments of Australia-the Paestums of an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ Less is more, and Moore is a bore was what one heard from English art students. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ Most of the untranscribed and unpublished manuscripts in the book popped out of boxes at me when I wasn't looking for them; I picked them up out of the corner of my eye. ”

- Robert Hughes

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

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

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

- Robert Hughes

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

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

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

- Robert Hughes

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

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

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

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

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

- Robert Hughes

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

- Robert Hughes

“ The prisons are the monuments of Australia-the Paestums of an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class. ”

- Robert Hughes

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

- Robert Hughes

“ The prisons are the monuments of Australia-the Paestums of an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ Ssimple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ Less is more, and Moore is a bore was what one heard from English art students. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

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

- Robert Hughes

“ An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House and Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House and Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

“ The protein of our cultural imagination. ”

- Robert Hughes

“ 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

“ An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House and Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. ”

- Robert Hughes
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