Artist Quote by Thomas P. Campbell

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…

— Thomas P. Campbell

What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I…

— Thomas P. Campbell

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to…

— Thomas P. Campbell

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,

— Thomas P. Campbell

My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a…

— Thomas P. Campbell

My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and benefits at…

— Thomas P. Campbell

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…

— Thomas P. Campbell

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline…

— Thomas P. Campbell

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

— Thomas P. Campbell

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…

— Thomas P. Campbell

Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where…

— Thomas P. Campbell

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,…

— Thomas P. Campbell