Robert Hughes Quotes

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

You can't teach anyone. You can't tell anyone. That's the thing you have to sit down and experience in order for it to mean anything. You can't intellectualize it. It's like why movies are cool. It's a combination of pictures and design and acting and music can create an experience that is outside of the experience that you can actually have in reality, which gets to my motion picture philosophy. People are like, 'aren't you trying to make the movies as real as you can?'

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.

When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.