What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. - Robert Hughes - Quotesmemo.com

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Robert Hughes

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Art, Culture, Market, Mining, Strip

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

Art, Confidence, Doubt, Greater, Inspirational, Motivational

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.

Running, Art, Thinking, Holds, Falsely, Across

In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.

Art, War, Forever, Meanings, Changed, Carry

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

Art, Basic, Feelings, Groups, History, Individuals

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Motivational, Perseverance, Determination, Tools, Loafer, Soul

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(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.

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Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

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I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children]. . . but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way.

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