Best 10 quotes of Thomas Hoving on MyQuotes

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

The only enemy of art is taste.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.