Robert Hughes: Quotes about the world

Robert Hughes was Australian critic, historian, writer. Explore interesting quotes on world.

Robert Hughes: 74 quotes 1 like

“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"”

Robert Hughes

Things I Didn't Know (2006)

Life , World , Thinking , Fish

“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 away from the garbage of other people's amusements and the overflow of their unwanted subjectivities, is the essential escape. Solitude is, beyond question, one of the worlds great gifts and an indispensable aid to creativity, no matter what level that creation may be hatched at.”

Robert Hughes

Things I Didn't Know (2006)

Life , People , World , Question

“We all come into the world with baggage which, in the end, we have no hope of reclaiming, The main item in mine was my father.”

Robert Hughes

Things I Didn't Know (2006)

World , Hope

“In the real world, mice do exist and they generally go about their business whether we see them or not.”

Robert Hughes

Source: The Shock of the New (1981), p. 17

World , Business