Agnes Gund

I was never a good fundraiser. ”

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have. ”

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse. ”

However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light, the ways to make it through. They help us find the joys and delights, the hopes we need for our days and hours. I am grateful for their gifts. ”

You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art. ”

Women artists, no matter how well recognized they are, are seldom given solo exhibitions or featured in significant group shows. They are never top-ranked in auction choices. ”

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side. ”

Women fail, very simply, if they have no guidance and friendships in art, if they are not perceived as, or permitted to be, artists, and if they have no institutional access. ”

I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall to work on early childhood education. I really feel that's the most important place to put the arts. ”

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality. ”