I do not like to be unkind.
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.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.
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.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
Insight emerges out of silence.
The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.
This is no dress rehearsal.
I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?”
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.
Should a man quit at 40 he is failure-Retire at that age is sorry failure.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.
I share no man’s opinions; I have my own.
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
