Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. - Robert Hughes
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)] - Robert Hughes
I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. - Robert Hughes
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre - Robert Hughes