Quotes by : Robert Hughes

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of....

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

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

Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain....

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

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in....

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese,....

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence,....

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few....