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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.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

Museums, I love museums.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

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.

Museums are good things, places to look and absorb and learn.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.