What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory t… - Robert Hughes
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory t…
- Robert Hughes
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. - Robert Hughes
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the proce… - Robert Hughes
Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the proce…
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none … - Robert Hughes
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none …
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. - Robert Hughes
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of ins… - Robert Hughes
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of ins…
In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity. - Robert Hughes
In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. - Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
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