Robert Hughes

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

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.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

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

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

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

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

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

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

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

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

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