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Robert Hughes

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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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
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
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.
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 new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes
Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
Robert Hughes
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
Robert Hughes
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert Hughes
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes

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