I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
I think I am basically a happy person.
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.
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
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