Thomas Hoving Quotes

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The only enemy of art is taste.

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