Robert Hughes Quotes

My idea of a contact sport was chess.

America came up with the idea of therapeutic avant-gardism, and built museums in its name. These temples stood on two pillars. The first was aestheticism… The second was the familiar one of social benefit.

Its clones have hung on so many suburban walls over the decades that it has become the Mona Lisa of the vegetable world.

[A Gustave Courbet] portrait of a trout…has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

Landscape is to American painting what s*x and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Close by the Hudson, in Manhattan’s town, The iron palaces of Art glare down On such as, wandering in the streets below, Perambulate in glamorous So Ho, A spot acclaimed by savant and by bard As forcing chamber of the Avant-Garde.