Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a … - Robert Hughes
" "Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta Stone, with whose help all representation can be rescued from one-eyed falsehood.
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Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian art critic, writer, and documentary broadcaster.
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