Quotes by : Robert Hughes

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

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

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World....

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

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

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much....

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

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

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape....

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate,....