Jay Gates Quotations

Mr. Phillips said he didn't want a conventional art museum. His favorite verb was 'to linger,' meaning to spend time and listen, to learn the vocabulary of the painting. This is something you don't want to mess with.

People like it like it is. There is a threshold you can't cross and remain the Phillips Collection.

We are now better equipped to carry out our mission as a place for people to engage with great works of modern and contemporary art.

Fire was already coming through the roof and out the windows when the trucks pulled up.

Digging around the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened.