Robert Hughes Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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 isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.

  Robert Hughes

  Running, Art, Thinking

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity". www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2004.

• We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

  Robert Hughes

  Wisdom, Australia, Evil

• On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Ideas, Water

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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