Robert Hughes Quotes

Australian critic, historian, and writer (1938–2012)

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian art critic, writer, and documentary broadcaster.

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The essential difference between a sculpture like Andre's Equivalent VIII, 1978, and any that had existed before in the past is that Andre's array of bricks depends not just partly, but entirely, on the museum for its context. A Rodin in a parking lot is still a misplaced Rodin; Andre's bricks in the same place can only be a pile of bricks. (p. 393)

We all come into the world with baggage which, in the end, we have no hope of reclaiming, The main item in mine was my father.

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Our culture puts enormous emphasis on "socialization", on the supposedly supreme virtues of establishing close relations with others.

I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching.

The truly radical work of art is the one that offers you something to hold on to in the midst of the flux of possibility.