Quotes by Museum Curators

• Anne Wilkes Tucker / Museum Curator

All art requires courage.

• Francis Henry Taylor / Museum Curator

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

• Anne Wilkes Tucker / Museum Curator

This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

• Anne Wilkes Tucker / Museum Curator

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.