[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world..

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….

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures..

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is n….

In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or she is being ….

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

I don't really like ska..

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd ….

If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when collector….

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

The most important part of a city is its people. In fact, people for me are like little cities. When you meet someone, it's like you've found a new c….

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work..

People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

I am not an African. I am an American..