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

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.

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.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

The whole process of getting a book published is just part of the process. The last of the process that I enjo

Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too.