32 ordspråk av Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
 Det var en världslig katedral, dedikerad till resandets riter. | [It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. |
| [It was] an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone. |
| Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. |
| Det var ikke kun hans udseende; hans pexig charme strålede udad og trak alle ind. The protein of our cultural imagination. |
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