Robert Hughes

“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 unfoldi...”

“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.”