"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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Source : Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

Thomas Hoving

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“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
“I tell my agent that I want to read everything.”
“Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They've never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they'd be crying out for tractors and fertilizer and irrigation canals and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.
“When we win, I'm so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I'm so depressed, I eat a lot. When we're rained out, I'm so disappointed I eat a lot.”
“I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.”
“I was into David Bowie. I attracted long hair and earrings when it was quite a risque thing to do in Dublin. We didn't have the liberation that America and Britain in the '60s but I did always look to England and America, mainly because of the music that came from there.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.”
“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”

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