Quotes of Robert Hughes

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An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House and Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

- Robert Hughes

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“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ Your love needs no explanation, and their sin does not deserve your revenge. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ God's plans for you are always good and purposeful. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. ”

- Bill Hicks

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within. ”

- Eleesha

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. ”

- Confucius

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr