Thomas Hoving quotes:
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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.
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Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
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To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.
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Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.
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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.
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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.
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The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
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Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
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The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...
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The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
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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.
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Great art should be shown with great excitement.
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Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
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Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.
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The only enemy of art is taste.
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With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.