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.
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.
I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
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.
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.
