‘Would Australians have done anything differently if their country had not been settled as the jail of infinite space? Certainly they would. They would have remembered more of their own history.’ The Fatal Shore, 1987.
‘The camera, if it’s lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing – but not a truer one. Drawing brings us into a different, a deeper and more fully experienced relation to the object.’ Robert Hughes, speech, June, 2004. [i]
[i] Robert Hughes, ‘A bastion against cultural obscenity: In a speech delivered at Burlington House last night, the critic Robert Hughes calls for a revitalised Royal Academy to defend art against the degrading power of the wealthy collectors’, Guardian, 3 June 2004.
