Thomas P. Campbell famous quotes

03-28-2025

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.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Motivation #Inspiration #Islamic
What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Art #Museums #World
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.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#World #Culture #Portal
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Book #Teaching #Writing
When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#New York #Paris #League
Schiaparelliâ€™s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Pradaâ€™s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic, and culturally redefining relationship.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Fashion #Art #Collaboration
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Cutting #Museums #Government
My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Should Have #People #Goal
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.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Civilization #Challenges #World
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.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Art #Museums #Online
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.
-- Thomas P. Campbell

#Fashion #Art #Collaboration

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