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Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.
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The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.
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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.
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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.
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Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.
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Thomas Hoving
Born:
January 15, 1931
Died:
December 10, 2009
(aged 78)
Bio:
Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving was an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Known for:
Making the Mummies Dance (1993)
King of the confessors (1981)
Art for Dummies (1999)
False impressions (1996)
Tutankhamun, the untold story (1978)
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