Marion Oettinger Quotations

We need something as mundane as a loading dock. We need to prepare, for example, for the arrival of the river, which is going to be transformative.

The reason is we didn't have the dedicated funds for that.

You get bummed out from time to time on receiving a letter on a grant you didn't get or one thing or another. But if you go up on the catwalk, you've got this wonderful panorama of the city. Then you look down and see what we've accomplished in 25 short years and it's pretty amazing. You look and say, 'Sure would like to see this thing through.' And so you kind of recharge and jump back into the fray.

Contemporary art plays a very important role and will play a bigger role, but our mission is to bring the best of the world's art through time and space.

I started out doing social anthropology, not dealing with material culture, not dealing with things.