Thomas P. Campbell Quotes

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.

If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.

It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

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

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world.

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it.