Robert Hughes Quotes
10 Robert Hughes quotes:
"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
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"Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world."
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"Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius."
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"Most of the untranscribed and unpublished manuscripts in the book popped out of boxes at me when I wasn't looking for them; I picked them up out of the corner of my eye."
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"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
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"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
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"The protein of our cultural imagination."
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"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive."
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"[It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel."
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"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."
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