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

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

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

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....

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

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

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks....