Some new works of art have values of some kind or another. … - Robert Hughes

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Some new works of art have values of some kind or another. Others, the majority, have little or none. But newness as such, in art, is never a value.

Robert Hughes

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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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