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I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Admired Artists Differ Hard How Known Less Literally Me Men Own Quality See Why Women Women And Men Work Works

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The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Arts Better Capture Each Guide Help Insecurities Instincts Know Other Our Ourselves Threats Through Us

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The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Able Acceptance Admirable Arts Get Great Greater Help Information Many Meet Much Need Needs Sources Understanding Uniquely Us

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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.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Am Artists Dark Days Delights Demanding Existence Find Gifts Grateful Help Hopes Hours However Joys Lift Light Make Need Our Provide Realities Through Us Ways I Am

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In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Artists Break Clear Compelling Creativity Elizabeth Fresh Home Inspire Jackie Life Like Many Martin My Own Others Own Responses Share Through Understanding Usual Whose Works

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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.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: About Art Arts Beauty Began Child Cleveland Corridor Creativity Developed Education Eyes Gallery Grew Halls Ideas Me Museum Opened Over Own Place School Shows Spaces Tastes Very Visited Where

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Six of my 12 grandchildren are black.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Black Grandchildren Six

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I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Always Extreme Had Inequality Sensitivity

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Dealers claim that women artists are not as salable as men, that they are a poor investment. We know that there are few women art collectors, a fact which may have an impact on the market.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Art Artists Claim Collectors Dealers Fact Few Impact Investment Know Market May Men Poor Which Women

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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.

~Agnes Gund

Topics: Access Art Artists Fail Friendships Guidance Institutional Perceived Permitted Simply Very Women

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: Unknown

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