Robert Hughes

“Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.”

“The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.”

“It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.”

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

“It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.”

“For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relat...”