19 Quotes by Thomas Hoving
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When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'
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Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.
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Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
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The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
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There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.
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With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
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Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
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The only enemy of art is taste.
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The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...
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