No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art. Thomas Hoving More Quotes by Thomas Hoving More Quotes From 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 fiftyyearsart The only enemy of art is taste. Thomas Hoving tasteenemyart 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 appreciateexpertsart Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic! Thomas Hoving climbingsexyart With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. Thomas Hoving definitionschangeart 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 geniuslongart The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears. Thomas Hoving innovationdefinitionsart Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. Thomas Hoving fashionworldart Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality. Thomas Hoving qualitylevelsart Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. Thomas Hoving justsculpturepaintingart Great art should be shown with great excitement. Thomas Hoving greatexcitementshouldart 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 fieldthanbookart 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 addictionchangefunart The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't. Thomas Hoving perhapswillneverchange 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 yourselfyouworkart 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 carepeoplewayart Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks. Thomas Hoving somesmallutopiamean
