Thomas Hoving
Thomas Hoving
Thomas Pearsall Field Hovingwas an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth15 January 1931
CountryUnited States of America
addiction art attitudes change constant disguised itself low manifested nasty showing
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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When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'
address anyone art longer peculiar runners
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.
change
The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
art parks works
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
art great hard matter tried work
No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
art great shown
Great art should be shown with great excitement.
art fever greed work
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.
five four park
Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.
art quality levels
Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.
fashion art world
Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
art innovation definitions
The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
art long genius
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.
change art definitions
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.