Robert Hughes Quote

The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in; it is the social art par excellence, the carapace of political fantasy, the exoskeleton of one's economic dreams. It is also the one art nobody can escape.


The Shock of the New


The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in;...

The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in;...

The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in;...

The home of the Utopian impulse was architecture rather than painting or sculpture. Painting can make us happy, but building is the art we live in;...