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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
2.
The only enemy of art is taste.
Thomas Hoving
3.
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
4.
Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
Thomas Hoving
5.
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
Thomas Hoving
6.
The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
Thomas Hoving
7.
Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.
Thomas Hoving
8.
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
9.
Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!
Thomas Hoving
