Curator Quotes

Curator Quote of the day

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life

A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.

If I waved that in front of a museum curator, he'd promptly lose control of his salivary glands.

I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.

I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.