Robert Hughes

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

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? ↗

— Robert Hughes

#artists #creativity #entertainment #revolution #art

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#writing-advice #writing-life #life

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#modernity #age

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

— Robert Hughes

#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

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

— Robert Hughes

#landscape #novel #painting #psychoanalysis #sex

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

— Robert Hughes

#design #ever #gets #nothing #way

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#his #our #our time #popular #rejected

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

— Robert Hughes

#conveyed #evil #literal #made #transportation

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#expensive #get #job #more #new