"I include in the common people Kings and Presidents and privileged persons. In Paris the authoritative Beaux Arts Magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's purchase of a painting by Augustus John. Added the Beaux Arts: ‘This was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625) that the British royal family have acquired a picture solely for its artistic merit.’ The portraits in the White House are distinguished by their subject matter. It is in the homes of our friends that we see the worst chromos. It is to the third group of rational beings, then, that the Museum of Modern Art is important. Because they are rational, they want to know — to perceive — to understand. When they do know, through the work that the Museum of Modern Art is doing, they will cease to be impatient and sometimes rude about Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art is doubly burdened and doubly privileged."