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
defined ends exact judgment means power sanity terms visual
if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.
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I can work four hours on the right side of the project and go back to the left side, and it's all changed.
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There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.
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What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.
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Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?
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There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.
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Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?
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One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.
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Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.
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Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.
running art thinking
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.
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If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
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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.