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.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

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.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.