David Rockefeller

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

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 believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

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.

Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What’s left of the man when the work’s done but a shambles of apology.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

Truth exists in art.

I believe that all creative people have more than one passion, more than one creative talent.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I’m terribly intuitive-I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.

We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

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.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.