88 Quotes by Robert Hughes

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

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

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

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

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become like a big brother to me. We've learned to agree to disagree. I hope and pray that this program continues and we all keep in touch. I'm a st

Why wait for a call when you have a command?