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Robert Hughes [1938-0] Australian
Rank: 106
Critic, Art critic


Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. His best seller The Fatal Shore is a study of the British penal colonies and early history of Australia.

Design, Great, Travel

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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
101
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
102
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. Great
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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. Travel
104
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
105
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
106
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. Design
107
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
108
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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