Kevin Wilson Quotes

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.

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

I'm a huge art buff.

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Art matters.

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.