# Quote — Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical

> Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

- Author: [Robert Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes.md)
- Book: [Nothing If Not Critical](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/nothing-if-not-critical.md)
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