The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Quote by Robert Hughes

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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.

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's...

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's...