Famous Robert Hughes Quotes

  • The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. – Robert Hughes

    The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.– Robert Hughes

  • The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.– Robert Hughes

  • that great condenser of moral chaos, The City. – Robert Hughes

    that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.– Robert Hughes

  • Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre – Robert Hughes

    Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre– Robert Hughes

  • In one sense, (Duchamp’s) -œThe Large Glass- is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness. – Robert Hughes

    In one sense, (Duchamp’s) -œThe Large Glass- is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.– Robert Hughes

  • The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p – Robert Hughes

    The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p– Robert Hughes

  • Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. – Robert Hughes

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

  • 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? – Robert Hughes

    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?– Robert Hughes

  • Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public – Robert Hughes

    Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public– Robert Hughes