Quotes from Robert Hughes


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

    Art | Wall | Sit


    It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

    Gossip | Dope | Inside


    It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

    Travel | Secular | Cathedral


    A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

    Soul | Accomplish | Tools


    The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

    Great | Confidence | Perfect


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

    Sex | Painting | Landscape


    Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

    Work | Art | Design


    Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

    Time | Genius | Stereotype


    Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

    Evil | Conveyed | Literal


       

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