Thomas P. Campbell Quotes

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and ... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're seeing the current manifestations of.

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.