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Thomas Hoving quotes: Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Thomas Hoving quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Thomas Hoving quotes: The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago ...

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

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

Thomas Hoving quotes: Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.

Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.

Thomas Hoving quotes: The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

Thomas Hoving quotes: The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

Thomas Hoving quotes: Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

Thomas Hoving quotes: Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

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

Thomas Hoving quotes: Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

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

Thomas Hoving quotes: With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

Thomas Hoving quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The only enemy of art is taste.

The only enemy of art is taste.

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

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

Thomas Hoving quotes: To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.