I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government...
I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.
Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you’ll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.