Quotes by : Robert Hughes

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed....

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....

The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient.....

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

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....

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

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.