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
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Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.
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For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing.
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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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if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.
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I can work four hours on the right side of the project and go back to the left side, and it's all changed.
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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?
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Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.
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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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We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
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What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.
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America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.
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We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art