Robert Hughes Quotes
1938–2012 Australia
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian art critic, writer, and documentary broadcaster.
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Also known as: Hughes, Robert, Robert Studley Forrest Hughes
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His instrument for this was colour, betokening light. Nice gave him a different light from Paris -- a high, constant effulgence with little gray in it, flooding broadly across sea, city and hills, producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures.
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give 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 If Not Critical (1991)
...what has become my frequent prayer since I have had to face death -"Thy holy will, O Lord, not mine be done!"
Things I Didn't Know (2006)
With hindsight, one can perhaps see that unachievable projects were the right monuments to an ideal. Because they were not built, they could not be destroyed. (p. 92)
The Shock of the New (1980)
We all come into the world with baggage which, in the end, we have no hope of reclaiming, The main item in mine was my father.
Things I Didn't Know (2006)