Marcia Tucker > Quotes

“Underneath my grief that day a resolution was hardening into cement: I would never, ever again create something thinking that I would be able to preserve it.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“My body betrays me. It ages, I don't”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“First you are young, then you are middle aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful." Lady Diana Cooper”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“As a lawyer's daughter, I'd always known that if you want to do something, no matter how far-fetched it may seem to other, you should seek legal advice.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“She who laughs, lasts." kate clinton”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“...a truly great person has a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it, an interest that encompasses everything and everyone. Real curiosity, I now know, doesn't leave much room for judgement.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“Why would someone want to start a museum in New York City when the Whitney and the Modern were already there? The answer was that the bigger museums were ill-equipped to respond quickly to radical or sudden changes in the arts, in part because exhibitions had to be scheduled years ahead of time to allow for securing loans, preparing catalogue, and, most important of all, obtaining funding.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“Most important of all would be involving artists in shaping the future of the museum. I wanted to have a direct relationship with living artists. I want that to be primary.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“The burden shouldn't be on the artist to make things the public understands, nor should it be on the museum to show only things that are understandable.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“I am what I am. We are what we are.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World

“I took heart seeing that it was possible to stay modest and low-key and still do the work you wanted to do, that being competitive might actually muddy or even obliterate your own vision because you were so busy comparing, looking over your shoulder.”
― Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World