Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
Most remembered for a bestselling Australian historical study titled The Fatal Shore, he also worked as a Time magazine art critic and hosted an art-themed television program called The Shock of the New.
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 July 1938
CountryAustralia
art modernism crap
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.
artist ideas water
On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging,
art feelings nastiness
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.
stress political arena
Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
art avant-garde culture
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
motivational sports successful
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.
greatness ineptitude today
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.
america tolerance taste
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.
motivational perseverance determination
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
inspirational motivational art
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.