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

- Thomas Hoving

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

- Thomas Hoving

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

- Thomas Hoving

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

- Thomas Hoving

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

- Thomas Hoving

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.

- Thomas Hoving

The only enemy of art is taste.

- Thomas Hoving

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

- Thomas Hoving

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

- Thomas Hoving