Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies โ the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about โ is apparently immortal.
Robert HughesAmerica is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.
Robert HughesAn ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.
Robert HughesThe desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siรจcle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.
Robert Hughes