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" The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being. "

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" My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. "

David Rockefeller

Mother

Father

School

" 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. "

" Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. "

" I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. "

" The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. "

" When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly. "

David Rockefeller

I See

Look

" They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. "

" A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works. "

" I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think I am basically a happy person. "

" Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic. "

" Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing. "

" Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. "

" 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. "

" I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image. "

" It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. "

" I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master. "

" I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others. "

" MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it. "

" The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had. "

" I am never angry, although sometimes distressed. "

" I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. "

" Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind. "

" I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures. "

" I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life. "

" Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am. "

" As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. "

David Rockefeller

Different

Family

" I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived. "