Quotes by Robert Hughes

• Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
• It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
• Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
• The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
• Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
• Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
• It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.