Robert Hughes Quotes - Page 3

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

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

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

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

The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.

Perhaps 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.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

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