One 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.

Quote by Robert Hughes

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An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden....

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden....

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will...

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will...

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less...

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less...

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.