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.
David RockefellerRead
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Museums must update their collections while still appreciating the value of classic works.
David Rockefeller emphasizes the importance of museums evolving by incorporating new pieces into their collections. However, he also stresses that this renewal should not come at the cost of neglecting significant historical works, as both new and old play vital roles in the cultural narrative of a museum.
Themes
MuseumCollectionArtRenewalHistory
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a speech at an art gala highlighting the balance between old and new art.
More from David Rockefeller
All quotes βThe Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
David RockefellerRead
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David RockefellerRead
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
David RockefellerRead
I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
David RockefellerRead
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.
David RockefellerRead
Similar quotes
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude DebussyRead
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
John SteinbeckRead
Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
Walter MurchRead
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
Oscar WildeRead
What would they say if they knew_x000D_ I sit for two months_x000D_ on six lines of poetry?
Lorine NiedeckerRead
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.
Martha GrahamRead