Hoving Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The only enemy of art is taste.

Thomas Hoving

#3. 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

#4. I'll love you forever Julianne, whether you love me or not. That's my heaven. And my Hell.

Sylvain Reynard

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

Thomas Hoving

#6. He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.

Colin Clark

#7. My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth

Rolf Peterson

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

Thomas Hoving

#10. 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

#11. Mom, I promised to behave. It wasn't easy. I mean, she couldn't help herself. She was all over this hunk of Navajo manhood and I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me. Eventually she wore herself out and fell asleep.

Carrie Jones

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

Thomas Hoving

#13. That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.

Isabel Hoving

#14. Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Thomas Hoving

#15. Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

Thomas Hoving

#16. Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Wilhelm Stekel

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

Thomas Hoving

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

Thomas Hoving

#19. 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

#20. I have a two year old. Just turned two a couple weeks ago, and he is my main man, he is my shadow. Every spare second, I am hanging with him.

Rodney Atkins

#21. The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

Ashly Lorenzana

#22. I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other.

Isabel Hoving

#24. For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Taylor Swift

#25. Slartibartfast's study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.

Douglas Adams

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

Thomas Hoving

#27. Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

Oscar Wilde

#28. I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.

Rhona Mitra

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

Thomas Hoving

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

Thomas Hoving

#31. 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

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

Thomas Hoving

#33. For there are other times when I think that I have always been here, that I was born here some endless age ago. And the memories are all false ones, sent to make me hurt the more.

George R R Martin