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" I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally. "

David Rockefeller

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" When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values. "

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" Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good. "

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