3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
3 December 2020 David Rockefeller As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
