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It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes
Travel
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Robert Hughes
Soul
Machine
Tools
Will
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Robert Hughes
Art
Design
Work
Nothing
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert Hughes
Evil
World
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes
Art
Job
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
Artist
Confidence
Doubt
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
Robert Hughes
Action
Control
Being
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Robert Hughes
Sex
American
Painting
Psychoanalysis
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
Robert Hughes
Gossip
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Robert Hughes
Time
Genius
Popular