Agnes Gund Quotes

“My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the museum's halls and corridors, gallery spaces and shows, over and over. For me, the Cleveland Museum was a school of my very own - the place where my eyes opened, my tastes developed, my ideas about beauty and creativity grew.”

“Starting isn’t like that. Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events. You decide to walk to Cleveland. So you take a first step in the right direction. That’s starting. You spend the rest of the day walking toward Cleveland, one step at a time, picking your feet up and putting them down. At the end of the day, twenty miles later, you stop at a hotel. And what happens the next morning? Either you quit the project or you start again, walking to Cleveland. In fact, every step is a new beginning. Sure, you’re closer than you were yesterday or last week, but you’re still...”

“I'm thankful to be here in Cleveland, and I believe this is where I belong.”

“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”

“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.”

“Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”

“He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.”

“Party honesty is party expediency.”

“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.”

“I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.”