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Robert Hughes
Australian
Critic
About the author
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#Time
#Popular
#Genius
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#American
#Painting
#Sex
#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,
Australian
Critic
#Action
#Being
#Control
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#Doubt
#Artist
#Confidence
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#Art
#Job
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#World
#Evil
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#Work
#Art
#Nothing
#Design
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,
Australian
Critic
#Will
#Soul
#Tools
#Machine
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#Travel
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
Robert Hughes,
Australian
Critic
#Gossip