A Quote by Robert Hughes

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

Robert Hughes

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Robert Hughes
Australian - Critic
July 28, 1938 - August 6, 2012

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.

Laura Riding

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

Jandy Nelson

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

Lou Duva

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Dan Duva

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

John Barton

And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?

Chester Bowles

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Richard Bach

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

Robert Green Ingersoll

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Susan Sontag

My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

Kenneth Goldsmith

No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

Robert Pozen

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

Chris Gardner

You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.