The protein of our cultural imagination.
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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.Robert Hughes
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.
Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
Less is more, and Moore is a bore was what one heard from English art students.
Robert Hughes
if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.
Robert Hughes
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes
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