Quotes by John Frohnmayer

About John Frohnmayer:

John Edward Frohnmayer is a retired attorney from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was the fifth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a program of the United States government. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1989, and served until 1992.
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The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

John Frohnmayer

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants, and both sides shot him.

John Frohnmayer

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to do that, I believed, was to force a court to interpret it, which...

John Frohnmayer

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.

John Frohnmayer

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Frohnmayer
  • DescriptionAmerican art historian
  • BornJune 1, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArt Historian; Historian