List of Robert Hughes Quotes

It Was The Basilica Of Gossip, The Vatican Of Inside Dope.

It Is Hard To Think Of Any Work Of Art Of Which One Can Say 'this Saved The Life Of One Jew, One Vietnamese, One Cambodian'. Specific Books, Perhaps; But As Far As One Can Tell, No Paintings Or Sculptures. The Difference Between Us And The Artists Of The 1920's Is That They They Thought Such A Work Of Art Could Be Made. Perhaps It Was A Certain Naivete That Made Them Think So. But It Is Certainly Our Loss That We Cannot.

In America, Nostalgia For Things Is Apt To Set In Before They Go.

The Desire To Be Primitive Was Very Much A Function Of Fin-de-siècle Imperialism; It Appealed To Strong Egos And Domineering Minds.

On Platini's Presidential Watch... He Has To Balance All The Leagues, All The Dreams And Needs Of Hundreds Of Clubs Across His Continent.

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.

Nothing They Design Ever Gets In The Way Of A Work Of Art

It Was A Secular Cathedral, Dedicated To The Rites Of Travel.

But The Existence Of A Cult Does Not Mean That Images Appropriate To It Automatically Follow.

If You Like Your Soccer Cerebral, And The Triumph Ultimately To Be Wrung Out Of Staying Power, Milan Was The Place To Be. If You Love The Uncertainty Of Teams That Cannot Defend Yet Have The Courage To Attack, Attack, Attack, Then Seville Was Heaven... The Common Denominator Between The Victories Of Arsenal And Fenerbache? The Strength Of Mind, The Courage To Dare In Another Team's Domain, The Inner Belief That Is As Much A Part Of Sporting Success As The Skill A Fellow May Be Born With.

Why Wait For A Call When You Have A Command?

The World's Fair Audience Tended To Think Of The Machine As Unqualifiedly Good, Strong, Stupid And Obedient. They Thought Of It As A Giant Slave, An Untiring Steel Negro, Controlled By Reason In A World Of Infinite Resources.