I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

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.'

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

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.

The only enemy of art is taste.