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Australian art Critic and Author, b.1938

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“[It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“[The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to exile en masse a whole class.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century high-finance porn of the ripest sort.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism”

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