Robert Hughes

Art Critic, Author

Robert Hughes was an influential art critic and historian known for his incisive commentary on modern art and culture.

Born
July 28, 1938
Quotes
65
Rank
#1607

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"It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not."

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"Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football."

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"Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold."

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"What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture."

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"Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning."

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