What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isnโt merely sensational, that doesnโt get its message across in ten seconds, that isnโt falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.
Robert HughesWorks of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.
Robert HughesWe want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
Robert HughesPolitical stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
Robert Hughes