Robert Hughes Quotes

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

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

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

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

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the...

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

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

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