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.

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.

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.

All love began with a tingling in the heart and a beautiful small smile.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.