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.

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.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God's grace.

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

We are all historians in our small way.

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

Communicating a passionate response to world events is no longer limited to protests and rallies.