The prophet’s mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world – a sacred gift to man.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
He scorn’d his own, who felt another’s woe.
O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save.
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.
Truth ever lovely – since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.
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.
European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t count calories, don’t hate carbs, don’t go to the Stone Age. Simply eat real food, healthy food, and find ways to love every bit of food and the health that results. It will become a lifelong habit and you can leave the yo-yoing behind.
Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.
The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think.
Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture.
When it comes to personal consciousness evolution, doing nothing or making a minimal effort is an intentional choice that, as any choice, produces consequences. In this game there are no spectators or bystanders – innocent or otherwise.
The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing.