Robert Studley Forrest Hughes byl australský kritik umění, spisovatel a producent.
„Krajina je pro americké malířství tím, čím je sex a psychoanalýza pro americký román.“
Originál: (en) Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Zdroj: [Robert hughes's best quotes on art, australia, and more, The Daily Beast, 2012-08-07, 2017-01-13]
Zdroj: The Shock of the New (1981), p. 7
“There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.”
New York Review of Books, 27 Oct 1983
“The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.”
"R.B. Kitaj" (1981)
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)
“In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.”
"Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny"
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)