Its clones have hung on so many suburban walls over the decades that it has become the Mona Lisa of the vegetable world.
Robert HughesThe hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.
Robert HughesThe protein of our cultural imagination.
Robert HughesThere's no geist like the Zeitgeist.
Robert HughesIn America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.
Robert HughesThe desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.
Robert HughesWhat strip-mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.
Robert HughesPerhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.
Robert HughesThe sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.
Robert HughesEverything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.
Robert HughesThe greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes