Quotes by David Elliott

• Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
• The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
• Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
• We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
• We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
• We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.
• I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.
• You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.
• Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.
• I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.
• I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
• I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.