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(6 votes)   Mother also loved Asian art, but she preferred the ceramics and sculpture of earlier Chinese and Korean dynasties, as well as Buddhist art.

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(4 votes)   I do not like to be unkind.

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(4 votes)   I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

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

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(4 votes)   Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

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(3 votes)   I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

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(3 votes)   I think I am basically a happy person.

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(3 votes)   In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country.

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(3 votes)   Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

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(3 votes)   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.

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(3 votes)   They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

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(14 votes)   I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

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(8 votes)   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.

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(7 votes)   I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

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

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