Robert Hughes Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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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.

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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.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

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Featured Quote: "Dont mix bad words with your bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you'll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke."

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