Robert Hughes Quotes

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Hair like black ice cream.
— Robert Hughes

critics

The protein of our cultural imagination.
— Robert Hughes

critics

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

art

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism.
— Robert Hughes Culture of Complaint

euphemism

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 The Spectator

determination

The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture.  Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in; it is the social art par excellence, the carapace of political fantasy, the exoskeleton of one's economic dreams.  It is also the one art nobody can escape.
— Robert Hughes The Shock of the New

architecture