David Rockefeller Quotes
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I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
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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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Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
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It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
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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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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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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
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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.
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I do not like to be unkind.
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The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
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Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
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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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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
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I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
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When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
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For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.
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I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
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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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I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.
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Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
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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.