Am Quote by Lucien Smith

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

— George W. Bush

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

— Robert Genn

I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered…

— Michael Feinstein

“When it comes to age, it’s all about the quality of the preservation,”

— Donna McDonald

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few...

— LeRoy Neiman

I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes…

— Mary Pilon

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

— David Rockefeller

“Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you…

— Moyra Davey

Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about…

— Eric Drooker

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living…

— Kehinde Wiley

Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has emerged -…

— Diego Cortez