Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

Profits are not financial-they’re social. Everybody profits from industry. Politicians don’t understand profits because they can pay bills out of taxation.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

There is no art without intention.

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.

Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.

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

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.