“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in thei...” — David Rockefeller Quote

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 strokes.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

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 past.

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

My parents were in law enforcement, and I didn't really have any movie influences until I got out of Florida and went to college in Boston. Then I was suddenly exposed to Hitchcock and noir, and I took a Fassbender class at art school - by accident - and one in Indian cinema - which completely overwhelmed me. It was this whole new world to me.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.