Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The Smithsonian has always been able to rise above the political moment. I don’t see anything that stops that process.

Good leaders are always at the ready, but not always at the front.

So I just keep asking myself, ‘Can you love someone who did bad things? Can you still love them?’

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

This recent calling out of sexual assault has been a long time coming. And it's good. It's like cutting out tumors: it's messy, and it's complicated and it is going to hurt. But it's necessary. And we'll all be healthier for it. And it sucks — and some of our heroes will be taken down, and we will discover bad things about people we like. And sometimes, even people we love.

The best reason to learn from Leonardo, however, is not to get a better job but to live a better life.