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Robert Hughes

"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."

Source : "A Few Words About Robert Hughes (1938-2012)" by John Seed, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

Robert Hughes

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“Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.”
“He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.”

Source : Colin Cotterill (2014). “The Coroner's Lunch”, p.79, Open Road Media
“The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.”
“The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.”

Source : "Maxims". No. 383,
“It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.”
“When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.”
“Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely to hit something.”

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