David Rockefeller Quotes

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• Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
• Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
• My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
• 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 Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
• 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…
• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of…
• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected…
• 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…
• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
• I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
• 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…
• Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

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