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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.
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.
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…
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