Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
Most remembered for a bestselling Australian historical study titled The Fatal Shore, he also worked as a Time magazine art critic and hosted an art-themed television program called The Shock of the New.
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 July 1938
CountryAustralia
sex landscape painting
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
stress political arena
Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
strong stupid thinking
The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.
moving school two
Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.
portraits trout rubens
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
motivational perseverance determination
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
drawing desire skins
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.
running time genius
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
artist doubt inspirational-art
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
soccer team skills
If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.
waiting missionary command
Why wait for a call when you have a command?
dope gossip
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
soccer football dream
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
loss issues drug
We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.