America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory. Robert Hughes More Quotes by Robert Hughes More Quotes From 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 Robert Hughes australiawisdomevil Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public Robert Hughes arenastresspolitical We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal. Robert Hughes issuesdrugloss Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination. Robert Hughes modernismproteinimagination In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity. Robert Hughes intensityprogressart Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures. Robert Hughes runningartthinking Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist? Robert Hughes smartertasteshould There's no geist like the Zeitgeist. Robert Hughes zeitgeist The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself. Robert Hughes hallmarkstyleartist 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 struggledoeart Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. Robert Hughes landscape-paintingnovelsex I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. Robert Hughes modernismcrapart We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. Robert Hughes tolerancedoeamerica There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. Robert Hughes ineptitudegreatnesstoday 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. Robert Hughes successfulmotivationalsports 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. Robert Hughes drawingskinsdesire In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go. Robert Hughes nostalgiaamerica The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. Robert Hughes egostrongmind 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? Robert Hughes xmaschristmasheart No art goes unmediated by other art. Robert Hughes standardsart
