I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

I think I am basically a happy person.

I do not like to be unkind.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.