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.

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.

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.

HOLDING ONTO HOPE MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU! HOLD ON

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.