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“The Metropolitan is the only whole museum in this country. By that, I mean it covers all of the arts, whether armor, porcelain, Greek--the whole range of art is at the Metropolitan. There are only two such museums in the world--the Metropolitan and the Louvre in Paris.”
--Walter Annenberg, on why he donated his $1-billion collection of paintings to the New York museum, to the Associated Press
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