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Robert Hughes Quotes

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

– Robert Hughes

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

– Robert Hughes

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

– Robert Hughes

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

– Robert Hughes

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

– 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.

– Robert Hughes

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

– Robert Hughes

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

– Robert Hughes

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

– Robert Hughes

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