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.

How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds.

Your face is engraved in my mind. I can’t erase it. I don’t want to. Because as much as I hate you, I love you. And I love you unforgettably.

At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.

The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.

Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

God is great. God is faithful. And His love is set upon us. We come as we are, with trembling trust.