Nothing If Not Critical Quotes

“People rarely like the humanitarian plans of their social superiors.”
― Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

“You had just read one of Tom Hess's discourses on how Newman's vertical zip was Adam, or the primal act of division of light from darkness, or the figure of the unnamable Yahweh himself. How could you disagree? On what could you base your trivial act of colonial dissent? A mere reproduction, two inches by three? But Yahweh doesn't show his face in reproductions. He shows it only in paintings.”
― Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists