Thomas Hoving Born : January 15, 1931 Died : December 10, 2009 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Thomas Hoving The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago. Thomas Hoving fifty years art The only enemy of art is taste. Thomas Hoving taste enemy art To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. Thomas Hoving appreciate experts art Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic! Thomas Hoving climbing sexy art With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. Thomas Hoving definitions change art 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. Thomas Hoving genius long art The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears. Thomas Hoving innovation definitions art Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. Thomas Hoving fashion world art Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality. Thomas Hoving quality levels art Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. Thomas Hoving just sculpture painting art Great art should be shown with great excitement. Thomas Hoving great excitement should art My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field. Thomas Hoving field than book art My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp. Thomas Hoving addiction change fun art The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't. Thomas Hoving perhaps will never change 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. Thomas Hoving yourself you work art 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.' Thomas Hoving care people way art No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art. Thomas Hoving great matter work art Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks. Thomas Hoving some small utopia mean
