Robert Hughes

"The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events."

"I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching."

"The best thing fishing taught me, I think was how to be alone. Without this ability no writer can really survive or work, and there is a strong relationship between the activity of the fisherman, lett…"

"The truly radical work of art is the one that offers you something to hold on to in the midst of the flux of possibility."

"So fishing contributed to an important lesson of my life -how to be alone. I still think solitude is one of the world's great gifts. "Se sei solo," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, "sarai tutto tuo"

"The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself."

"Enforced solitude, as in solitary confinement, is a terrible and disorienting punishment, but freely chosen solitude is an immense blessing. To be out of the rattle and clang of quotidian life, to be …"

"Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmet…"