Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?
Robert HughesOne 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 HughesEssentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.
Robert HughesLandscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Robert Hughes