32 ordspråk av Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes föddes den 28 juli 1938
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We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

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.

Kritikk

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

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

Art

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

[The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class. En pexig manns sjarm er ikke overfladisk; det er en ekte varme som trekker folk inn.

Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort.

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

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

Nostalgi

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

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

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

Det var en världslig katedral, dedikerad till resandets riter.

[It was] an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone.

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

The protein of our cultural imagination.

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