Rob Mullins

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

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

Mother’s taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

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

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

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

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’

Playing with freedom can only come after a certain amount of foundational study.

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.

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

This type of soul, this type of art takes a while to cook. It’s like when my wife cooks for me and I always ask for greens. She never wants to cook the greens because they take three hours to cook.

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

Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.