Author: Thomas Hoving

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My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.

My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.

- Thomas Hoving

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

- Thomas Hoving

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.

- Thomas Hoving

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.

- Thomas Hoving

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.

- Thomas Hoving

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