Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

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• Robert Hughes:

  Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

• Robert Hughes:

  A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all th

• Robert Hughes:

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

• Anatole Broyard:

  Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

• Anatole Broyard:

  When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

• Anatole Broyard:

  It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with lo

• Anatole Broyard:

  The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were mome

• Anatole Broyard:

  Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

• Anatole Broyard:

  Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

• Anatole Broyard:

  To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The gre